EV fines for charging them

Absolute non story as one would expect from The Sun!
If folk can’t be bothered to read parking notices then that’s entirely their fault. Plus nobody should hog a charger if they’re not actually charging - others may need it!
 
tonybvi said:
. Plus nobody should hog a charger if they’re not actually charging - others may need it!
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Tony, late last year I pulled into Brockden P&R Perth, for a quick charge. Charge stations not broken were full of fully charged cars, whom I guess the owners jumped on a bud to work in Perth. I managed to return to Eskbank with 12% left.
College now charge for public to use our charge station, an over stay and a half hour grace, a fine is levied, I can’t remember fine amount.
One regular user of college charge station lives a five minute walk from campus, a main road house, where he has a charge station fixed to his garage. I suppose this BMW SUV owner could not afford to use his electric, yet used college free supply. I guess he’ll be using his own station now?
 
I forgot to add, there are warning signs of fines being applied to those who overstay, plus cost per Kw too.
 
Terry, Tesla handle this well by applying idle fees (up to £1/minute) if you don’t move your car within a few minutes of completing your charge (and you are informed of this by phone just before the car finishes charging. Additionally at busy locations they automatically cut you back to an 80% limit as charging from 80 to 100% can take longer than charging up to 80. If only other charge points could apply the same we would see a big improvement in availability. I attach a screen shot of the Tesla “etiquette“.
Hope you’re still enjoying your trip! Tony

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"All that glisters is not gold"

Or even lithium.
I tried plugging in my house to run the lighting.
But got the "Charge of the Light Brigade"
I also add that lithium is not very eco friendly re mining and disposing of dead batteries
Similar to lead acid.
All "progress" has its downsides eg fridges and cfc gases
 
jagmanx said:
"All that glisters is not gold"

Or even lithium.
I tried plugging in my house to run the lighting.
But got the "Charge of the Light Brigade"
I also add that lithium is not very eco friendly re mining and disposing of dead batteries
Similar to lead acid.
All "progress" has its downsides eg fridges and cfc gases
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This is why I think Hydrogen is the way forward, it has some issues of course but so does any tech if you want to go global, I think if Iveco and JCB are investing millions then there will be others taking not and doing their own R&D fist to market with a viable filling and transportation system will be brand leaders.
 
Yeah it went up for sure, but that was a balloon, not a highly specified pressure tank.
 
2cv said:
The Hindenberg was designed for helium but this was not available because of US export restrictions hence the hydrogen.
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So if it had been filled with helium it wouldn't have burst into flames?
And we can't have helium cars because it's a finite product and nobody knows how to manufacture it?
 
StuartHolmes said:
So if it had been filled with helium it wouldn't have burst into flames?
And we can't have helium cars because it's a finite product and nobody knows how to manufacture it?
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Wouldn't run on Helium anyway as it's an inert gas, and that's why you can breath it and talk weird.
 
Quite why we still allow it to be put in party balloons is beyond me, it isn't quite a finite resource, but it takes a bit of work to capture it.
 
StuartHolmes said:
So if it had been filled with helium it wouldn't have burst into flames?
And we can't have helium cars because it's a finite product and nobody knows how to manufacture it?
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Naw, the reason is that a helium filled car would float away ... Grade 9 'O' Level Chemistry Fail in 1970 [but only because there wasn't a Grade 10] :rolleyes:

Steve
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Quite why we still allow it to be put in party balloons is beyond me, it isn't quite a finite resource, but it takes a bit of work to capture it.
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According to helium conservationists like Nobel laureate physicist Robert Coleman Richardson, writing in 2010, the free market price of helium has contributed to "wasteful" usage (e.g. for helium balloons). Prices in the 2000s had been lowered by the decision of the U.S. Congress to sell off the country's large helium stockpile by 2015. According to Richardson, the price needed to be multiplied by 20 to eliminate the excessive wasting of helium. In the paper Stop squandering helium published in 2012, it was also proposed to create an International Helium Agency that would build a sustainable market for "this precious commodity".

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Helium - Wikipedia

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