I still hate that I can't just use a credit card + pre-auth (or even cash!) at an EV charging station like I can at every single gas station. The data! It's! Important! To! Investors!
> In Amsterdam a lot of the officials that collected the coins actually took a lot for themselves even.
Considering the fact that the machine counts the coins it receives, and a value of coins gets deposited in a bank, this seems like the easiest fraud in the world to catch.
If that went on for a long time, that is some horrifically incompetent oversight.
Edit: I'm suddenly realizing this was probably about the pre-digital coin-operated parking meters. Which makes me wonder how could you prevent widespread skimming? Unless they had tamper-proof "odometers" inside that you had to record the value of each time you emptied them?
> Cash wouldn't work as most charging stations would be constantly broken due to attempts to rob them. It's why even parking meters no longer take cash.
Most gas stations in the US take cash without having to fend off constant robbery attempts. I don't see why EV charging stations could not do the same.
Ideally we’d follow in Norways’s footsteps and mandate that new charging stations accept credit cards but that’s probably a lost hope with electric cars being a culture war issue in the US these days.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 included $7.5 billion to establish the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program. This program aims to build substantial charging stations every 50 miles along every major travel corridor in the US. The first charging stations funded by it opened earlier this month. NEVI requires that all charging stations built with this funding not require any accounts or apps to initiate a charge, so they will likely all have credit card terminals.
How is it a culture war? I thought that was pretty much over since the cybertruck convinced even hardline republican gas guzzler owners to buy one :P
Elon is very intolerant but at least he is popular with the traditionally hardline climate change denier crowd. I'm really hoping that will make for bipartisan climate action support in the end.
Hasn't happened just yet, they still need more time to think up their excuses as to why they finally caved and bought the clearly superior technology ;)
True enough, the biggest Trump supporter I know bought a Tesla a few years back. But Trump has pivoted to something like “Democrats and globalists support electric cars so electric cars are bad”: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wishes-electri...
There's an SAE standard for this, but I _also_ don't want that.
I rented an EV, and had to download an app, use 2fa, and store my credit card, to be able to charge at the hotel I was staying at. This was pretty crummy.
Vehicle-based auth, at least w/ rental cars, sounds like a great way to make lots of money with fees.
yeah there should be an old-timey telephone where she has to call the charging company and give them her name and password, then ask them to begin the charge cycle.
I don't have the link handy, but there was a really interesting EV charging station guide from like 1920 that actually had phone #s to call if you needed the electricity turned on at the listed address (along with context like "this is the mechanics home phone, please only call during these hours unless it's an emergency")