http://thenelsondaily.com/news/vandals-destroy-public-electric-vehicle-charger-grand-forks Vandals destroy public Electric Vehicle charger in Grand Forks September 09 2020 City staff removed the damaged charger from the street Tuesday morning. — City of Grand Forks Facebook page The City of Grand Forks said on its Facebook page [ https://www.facebook.com/CityofGrandForksBC/ ] Tuesday that the second and last functioning public Electric Vehicle charger was vandalized and destroyed Monday night. The result has forced city staff to remove the charger from the street Tuesday morning. “Tourists and residents will no longer be able to charge at a public location,” the City Facebook post said. “Vandalism also occurred to the public library’s outside electrical outlets.” Last week, the City's $4,000 newly installed Electric Vehicle charger outside City Hall was vandalized and rendered unusable. http://thenelsondaily.com/sites/default/files/styles/nelson_main/public/newsimages/boundarysentinelcom/sep/grand_forks_elect.jpg ... https://www.plugshare.com/location/245719 (city hall EVSE) ... https://www.plugshare.com/location/166309 (gyro park EVSE)
https://www.grandforksgazette.ca/news/labour-day-vandalism-spree-sees-both-grand-forks-electric-vehicle-chargers-ruined/ City official who filed report to RCMP says other city property was also vandalized Sep. 9, 2020 Both electric vehicle chargers owned by the City of Grand Forks were destroyed last weekend. (Facebook/City of Grand Forks) Weekend vandalism ruins both Grand Forks’ electric vehicle chargers Grand Forks City Hall filed a complaint with city RCMP Wednesday, Sept. 9, after an official says the city’s electric vehicle (EV) charging stations were knocked out in a spree of vandalism over the Labour Day weekend. City staff discovered the damage to the municipal EV stations at City Hall and Gyro Park on the mornings of Friday, Sept. 4 and Tuesday, Sept. 8, according to Grand Forks’ utilities manager. Each station is worth around $5,000 and will cost yet more money for the city to re-install. The utilities manager couldn’t say when either of the EV stations will come back online ... City staff also found extensive vandalism to a plug-in wall socket at the Grand Forks and District public library and to a nearby street lamp standard. In both cases, the utilities manager said someone had ripped out electrical wiring. “It was just pure vandalism,” they said, adding that no wire or metal appeared to have been salvaged. + (.de auto mag criticizes id.3> (EV diss'ing isn't limited2 Tesla) https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/volkswagen-electric-car-gets-poor-review-from-german-magazine/ Volkswagen electric car gets poor review from German ... September 9, 2020 ... sub-par fit and finish, with ... the inside of the hood as looking “like it was painted with a spray can,” ... 220-mile operating range bemoaned ... uneven panel gaps, ... an infotainment system that took too long to start up and a faulty GPS ... https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Volkswagen-EV.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts view: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ https://mail-archive.com/ev@lists.evdl.org/maillist.html {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
