On a related subject, of all the electric car charging stations I have seen in Arizona and California, I have never seen one actually being used. The one at the local library even had cobwebs.
My buddy’s daughter bought a Tesla, and was loving the free juice at her employer.
Then some other guy bought a Volt and now they arm wrestle over the plug in.
Traveling through Oregon last week there was a Tesla charging station with about six units. And there was a Tesla plugged into one as the owner had gone into the Starbucks next door. Nice looking car.
There is a reason for that. Quick charging batteries is expensive unless you have a Tesla. The dirty little secret with electric vehicles is they are designed for slower charging. Constant quick charging of batteries is bad for battery life. I suspect this is one of the reasons Tesla told some of their car owners to quit hogging the free chargers..
The ones at my work in San Jose are used constantly. People mainly spend the big bucks to go electric so they can use the carpool lanes and beat the horrendous traffic jams. You are allotted a certain amount of time at the charger, then you get a text message “Your time is up!” People leave meetings to go move their cars. People get invoiced for the power they buy, but at ridiculously low rates.