It is very simple: Parking rates are chosen to rise the "pain" of parking to the level that enough people decide that they do not want to park so that there are almost always some spaces left, but not too many, so that parking revenue is maximized.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Goren via EV Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 7:57 PM To: Lee Hart Cc: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] OT: status> the newswires are changing, (L1 CORRECTION!) On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Ironically, every parking meter I've ever seen already charges *way* more per hour than the cost of the electricity you could get from an AC outlet on that meter. Oh, it's worse than that. Much worse. At $5 / hour...that's $120 / day, which is over $3600 / month. That's a couple times a not uncommon suburban mortgage in the Phoenix metro area. All for a few dozen square feet of asphalt!? Regardless, those who charge for parking meters will most certainly see charging as a premium service for those meters and charge accordingly, marginal cost to them be damned. They'll probably start at at least double, if not triple or more, of the non-charging rate (though there may well be free introductory trials or what-not). And, once that gets accepted as the "new normal," they'll figure out a way to do away with the non-charging rate. Places that _don't_ charge for parking today almost certainly won't charge for parking + charging in the future, and they'll have even more people prefer them to the alternates. But I'm sure the vultures will show no mercy given the opportunity. ...now might be a good time to start thinking about ways to prevent these kinds of exploitation without slowing down deployment of streetside charging infrastructure. Maybe somebody should start lobbying the right politicians today...? b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141124/f629 e7f9/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
