Even with this law, our local agency insists that they cannot let us pay by the month to charge at a 120v outlet because there is no metering/billing system. I used this counter argument:
“One must step back from the 5 minute $50 legacy gas-tank fill-up model which of course MUST be metered due to the orders of magnitude variability in each use. But, to make this model comparable to EV charging, however, assume that the filling station can only drip out a teaspoon of gas per minute. It would take a car 13 hours to get one gallon of gas. The cost is the same independent of the size of the tank. That is what 120v EV charging is about. The typical EV commute 20 miles, only needs HALF that and would not want to leave his car an extra 6 hours just to steal a few more teaspoons… By the way, In this analogy, the plug-in Prius only has a HALF gallon battery. The Chevy Volt only has a 1 gallon battery max. It would be a travesty to waste huge investments in $10,000 metering systems to collect $1 for charging. Such investments would require $5 per day just to recoup the investment in 10 years and NO ONE would ever use it. Expecting EV’s to pay 5 times the cost to charge is like expecting people to look for $10 per gallon gas. People wont do it and so the government just wasted the investment. Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151231/83d5ae46/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
