If I remember correctly, Mike's work is at the hp in Boise, ID. His description of their inter-coworker cooperation and communication reminds me of what hp was when I worked for them for 25 years. Its nice to know his site still seems to operate using Bill and Dave's old-school methods, whereas sites near hp Corporate in CA abandoned that long-ago when I worked under CEO Carley's reign.
But large companies that don't have that 'on-the-same-page' attitude and approach, have employees that are strangers and aloof to each other. Those plugin drivers act like they are using public charging, where they do not care about the other driver. This becomes especially true the more EV charging there is at a site, and when there are visitors using that EVSE. At Facebook in Menlo Park, CA http://a6b6a4d850da023e34c0-ffd458871468d7801be60d93d5d79b26.r30.cf2.rackcdn.com/45930.jpg there is a fair amount of charging around the former Sun-Microsystems/Oracle site buildings that an employee would likely not know the driver of the plugin vehicle next to them. This is going to become more common as more and more EVSE is installed at work and out at public locations. Here are some examples of large quantity EVSE installations: http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/houstons-tranquility-park-garage-with-gridbot-charging-stations_100365734_l.jpg Houston's Tranquility Park Garage http://www.cnet.com/news/google-we-have-largest-ev-charging-network/ Google says it will have 450 free charging stations on campus ... There are several other multiple-EVSE sites, but I think that is enough to make my point. ... What I found interesting about GM's newswire release to the media, was their late-to-the game effort to jump on the EV bandwagon. As if all their million$ of dollar$ to fight against plugins should be forgotten, and now they are the Good-Guys (?!?). Particularly the sentence stressing that all EVs (which they still insist the Volt plug-in-hybrid is) should be treated equally: do not unplug a pih because you know it can run on fuel. If a pih driver wants to use their pih in electric mode as much as possible, I can see that point. But how does anyone know what a pih driver's habits are. Clearly, a drained EV must get charging. [Please lets not start a flame war on who should get what] What I see is there is no established communication method between plugin drivers to talk to each other and see if what each driver's needs are. That is what I hoped GM would make happen. But all we got was lots of words that whitewash GM to look good, and the public to feel-good about their belated EV efforts. Perhaps there needs to be a next-gen EVSE that is smart enough to know who to ding the use-fee to, read the plugin's recharge-time desire, and adjust that fee accordingly. The EVSE owner may also want to sort out who 'needs a charge' vs who 'wants a charge' using those different rate fees. Perhaps the next-gen of EVs would have an EVSE interface screen on their infotainment system that would let them select what charge to get (how co$tly), and give data to the EVSE of what type of plugin it is, and how badly it needs a charge: -EVs wanting a higher/faster charge rate would pay more -pih with on-board fuel would pay more -EVs only wanting a low-n-slow and or an interruptible/V2G charge would pay less -etc. Something has to be done to communicate who 'needs' what, else charging situations can get nasty/abusive. {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-GM-s-Workplace-Charging-Etiquette-Tips-tp4669966p4669969.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
