garygid
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Was that a NEMA 14-50 receptacle (socket), not 15-40?
Was that a NEMA 14-50 receptacle (socket), not 15-40?
socalleaf said:I made a visit to the LA DWP headquarters in downtown LA on Hope St. to check out their EVSEs and to ask at the parking kiosk about accessibility of the EVSEs to the public. Here is what I found: Talking to the parking attendant, he said that anyone could come in to use the EVSEs. You just need to show ID and he will let you in. He said the parking structure there is open 24/7 and EV parking to charge is free So sounds like great news! Except that all the L2 EVSEs are legacy small paddle units. I could not see any that had J connectors. All the 10 or so spaces lined up with EVSEs on the wall were ICE'd....every single one. There was one unit that when I flipped open the cover had a 120 and a NEMA 15-40 receptacle. There was an electric motorcycle plugged into the 120 receptacle. Here are pictures http://flic.kr/ps/WABJY
I tried to contact someone at DWP to ask about these EVSEs and when they would be retrofitted with the J connector but no luck. So maybe there is a forum member who knows someone at the headquarters who can push this issue with them. Seems pretty unbelievable that they don't have these updated yet. I understand not all of them should be updated because there are EVs that need the small paddle.
LADWP headquarters is right across from the Music Center downtown.
adaminla said:I know that we've got a huge ecotality test market in Los Angeles, there are a number of leaf's on the road here and in general, we have an EV friendly city.
My question is Where are all the public charging stations? The only ones that my car shows are at local Nissan dealers.
Not having been the recipient of the ecotality largess I question why the subsidy went to install chargers in people's homes instead of building out the infrastructure for the general public to use...
TRONZ said:I agree. It would seem that Ecotality is more interested in banking our taxpayer money than spending it on what they are supposed to be doing. How does someone look up the government contract they signed? I would be very interested to see how they are complying with it's terms.
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