On 11 Jul 2015 at 0:06, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > Officials said electrical circuits blew in the houses of five > employees with take-home Vision Fleet cars. None of the overloads > caused fire or injury, but two damaged electrical outlets ...
Plugging in for L1 charging is no different from plugging in a space heater. So it threw the breakers. Big deal. Just do what you'd do if your power saw or heater threw a breaker -- reset the breaker and find a different place to plug in. I'm skeptical of the "damaged" receptacles, though it's possible if the recepts were old and didn't grip the plugs tight enough. This can cause overheating at the plug. > Citing safety concerns, the city ordered its police officers and other > employees to stop charging their municipal electric cars at home after a > handful of short circuits were reported. Why do ignorant writers have to call every electrical fault a "short circuit"? > Police already were questioning the appropriateness of the fleet > because some of the electric cars were not large enough to hold an > officer's equipment. Now they have to worry about the safety of the > cars themselves, even when they´re parked, he said. EVs have been similarly received (and they've often been deliberately sabotaged) time after time when fleet drivers have been required to use them. How much of this is basic anti-EV sentiment and how much is simple resentment caused by being forced to change, I can't say, but I've seen it many times over the last 40 years. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ 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)
