The one commercial that really is funny about this guy fueling his car and looks across the street to this other guy unplugging his car from some street charger. Like that’s going to happen. Nice pristine city street, no littler, eat of the sidewalk kind of place. Unplugs his Leaf (I think) and drives off. No other cars waiting in line to hook up (for who knows how long to re-charge) and no meter. Nothing visual where you’d drop a twenty in some money reader to charge.
I can see parking meters on city streets becoming charging stations. Just insert a $20 bill and go shopping for 4 hours. If you overrun the $20, the meter shuts off and the meter maid puts a boot on your vehicle. Then the city council will make the meter/chraging station parking spots off limits to real vehicles. Maybe I can get $500 Mil from Obama to develop the parking meters... Oops, now the secret is out.