Selfish Leaf Driver versus Bad Circuit Breaker vs Power surge

The title is misleading. Flames without the facts.

 

I smell a rat. Name of poster, number of threads and content.

Jurassic Prius, if you've nothing better to do, put your energy into something constructive like charity work.

 

There is another thread about an angry Leaf owner. It is starting to look like EV's are friendly for the environment but not friendly among people

 

Unless it's been changed, title seems fine to me, saying there are three possibilities. Having seen someone charging for a week, then found the cone and hand written note, and then that it could charge, there is at least grounds for suspicion. I don't think I signed up until I actually had something to say, so I'm not so surprised about his stats. And it actually seems to be non PiP Prius drivers who are getting at us the most here!

JurassicPrius, maybe you need to check it again a couple of times and see if the cone and note is always there when the other car isn't. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action... If it does recur, seems reasonable enough to me to a) mention the location here and b) check with the charging company whether the point has been out of order.

 

Makes sense to wonder if all is on the up-and-up, but if interested in pursuing this, good to have more facts, research this and ask questions diplomatically without pointing fingers. Seems like this would be high risk to get caught if someone was doing this as a personal parking space. Also, you mentioned you saw the note/cone on Saturday and most people work M-F, so could very well be unrelated to nefarious motives.

 

I would guess Park & Rides may well have cameras?
If the city put the charger in for the citizens, they may be open to scanning to see who put the note up.
While it peaks the curiosity, it is a loose coincidence at this point. I would second the suggestion to get at least a second data point.

 

a question mark after the title clears things up. sounds reasonable to me. i vote for 2 or 3.

 

+1

 

Today I was at the Encino Park and Ride at 5174 Hayvenhurst Avenue. There are two EVSE's at this lot. One of them does have a circuit breaker that seems to trip very easily. It tripped two minutes after I plugged it in, and five minutes thereafter. I gave up after that. While I was pulling away another EV came by. I turned around, and he was not able to get the thing to work at all. I guess because Prius's draw less electricity the circuit breaker is more forgiving...but the circuit breaker is on its last legs.

 

It would be easy to test. Flip the breaker and put the sign and cone back. Check on your way to work tomorow. If the Leaf is in the spot then you know.

 

This makes me wonder - has it ever happened to anyone that they plug the EVSE into an outside outlet at, say, at strip mall and it trips a major circuit breaker that shuts down something major that was also sharing that same breaker?

 

I have only charged about 6 times at my brothers apartment bldg. Outside plug-in made for winter time, tank heaters to warm cars for starting, never had a problem!

 

. Most outlets I have used have no other loads on them. AFAIK

 

I've shut down a Chili's restaurant by using their new L2 ChargePoint charging station, does that count?

 

It may have saved a lot of stomachs.

 

Only 1 or 2 chargers in a big lot is pathetic! No wonder people play the cone game!
How about 10 chargers, that are properly constructed, with sufficient size breakers so they won't trip at the first power jiggle!
That would be nice!

 

Did they thank you for discovering an improper charging station installation?

 

No, I was more concerned about them having a negative attitude towards EVs because of this issue, but in the end, they were very nice about it, and all of us learned some interesting lessons.

I actually did a little write-up about this, because I really want EV drivers to help out businesses running into these type of growing pains.