With all the coming election noise, and the possiblity of no more EVSE grants ringing in my ears, on a search I could not find a renewal of the U.S. Fed grant to cover some of the cost of installing public EVSE as before.
But I found a self-promo news item touting a business' new EVSE. I noticed their EVSE were two (proprietary) Tesla HPWC EVSE, that no other plugin but a Tesla EV can use. I sent a message off to the business' contact (a NJ mall), letting them know that non-Tesla drivers are going to feel rebuffed, thus they could lose plugin driver business. They kindly replied letting me know their HPWC EVSE was part of a Tesla Destination Charging grant (Tesla paid for it). See http://www.teslarati.com/becoming-tesla-destination-charging-participant/ Becoming a Tesla Destination Charging Participant Feb 25, 2016 [link https://teslafactory.wufoo.com/forms/q7b8imo1g0og2v/ contact Tesla’s Destination Charging program ] BTW there is no HPWC to j1772 adaptors drivers can buy, so when HPWC are installed, j1772 L2 drivers are shut-out. While I am not against Tesla, helping to install 'Tesla-only' (proprietary) EVSE is the same problem drivers had back in the late 1990's-on. GM would almost give away their inductive (proprietary, wireless) lpi,spi EVSE, which would displace either one or both of the public EVSE being installed at a host site, paid for with CA DMV fees (many EVSE sites had two spi and no conductive avcon EVSE). This cuckoo approach to public EVSE domination ... [link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo Cuckoo ... Many species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, ... raise their ... young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite ] is bad for the EV-cause, unless a HPWC coupler to j1772 adaptor is made available for plugin drivers to buy. Since HPWC EVSE are non-networked, buying an adaptor would be paid off with the free L2 charging. For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Tesla-s-cuckoo-EVSE-grants-tp4681606.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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
