Tesla does not give it away, you pay either $2,000 (or $2,500 later) to have the Supercharger enabled so you are "purchasing" energy in advance, for inter city travel (between cities) So, will you use 50,000+ miles of prepaid electricity? (I have spoken with people who have trouble comprehending the differance of 10-20 seconds at home to plugin to charge vs "Oh boy, free electricity, i'll drive 40-60 miles (hour), fill up for an hour or half hour at a supercharger, drive 40-60 miles back (another hour or so)" who dont comprehend the cost to fill a battery and focus on "free")
This is EV related in thats it's charging -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 11/25/14, Paul Dove via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Subject: Re: [EVDL] OT: status> the newswires are changing, (L1 CORRECTION!) To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 8:53 AM I believe that is why Tesla gives it away to its customers. Sent from my iPad > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote: >> And with parking meters charging, becoming bigger and also taking >> credit cards, I see a potential future in the merging of the two. > > At least in the US, it is normal for electric utilities to have made it illegal for others to resell their electricity. They set themselves up with a legal monopoly way back in the early days when the grid was first being established. ("If you don't give us the exclusive rights to sell power, we won't your town on the electric grid. Sign here...") > > So you can't legally sell power at a charging station without the power company's blessing. > > But you CAN charge for a parking place that just happens to provide "free" electricity! > -- > Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any > good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken > -- > Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)