jpa2825
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Hoping to get some help here. I think I've done the hard part. I convinced my employer to get the Landlord to install a charging station during our last lease negotiations. We have 2 floors of a 4 floor building with some reserved parking spaces. I negotiated a 1 stand, 2 cord Clipper Creek L2 station that is not networked. 1 cord points toward a reserved spot that I use. The other cord points at a publicly available spot(s). (This is on the corner of the building, so 2 reserved spots and 2 public spots are easily reachable by either cord.)
The cord that points to the reserved spot is metered to us directly. The other cord is metered to the common area of the building (like lights in the lobby, elevator, outlets in the lobby, etc.) and are eventually divided up and paid for by the tenants of the building.
I am working with the Landlord to make sure they properly sign the public space(s) for EV so the spaces don't get ICEd. I assume the Landlord is going to permit anyone to charge in those spots and not mark it "For Tenants Only," but I won't know until the signage goes up.
What I am most interested in is signage for our cord & communications to our employees about the availability.
SIGNAGE - something like "For COMPANY employees. If you have questions about charging, please contact NUMBER or [email protected]." I am willing to put my work # on there to answer the questions when they come in and can probably get the [email protected] email set up and routed to me. If a non-employee is in need of a charge, I would be willing to move my car to allow them to charge. I suspect the requests will be fairly infrequent. I would put the same info on PlugShare when I add the 2 cords. Seems reasonable to me to restrict it and sign it as such since we negotiated its existence and are directly paying the electric.
COMMUNICATION - I want to send an email announcement to all employees in the company headquarters to let them know the chargers exist and the protocol / etiquette for using them. Guidelines would be to use the public charger 1st, if available, and to use proper etiquette when doing so (don't charge there every day [i.e., don't consider it your main charger], use only as much / long as you need, move car when finished, be courteous to others, leave a note, etc.). Second point would be to contact me if the public charger is unavailable and you need a charge. I will move my car and allow you to charge under the same guidelines (don't charge there every day [i.e., don't consider it your main charger], use only as much / long as you need, move car when finished, be courteous to others, leave a note, etc.). Also want to encourage them to contact me if they are considering a pure EV or a plug-in / hybrid car to discuss. Finally, I would like to start the communication off with COMPANY is an environmentally friendly corporate citizen and, as such, we installed the chargers. YADA, YADA, YADA. We do lots of Earth Day activities and sell several products that are linked to environmental issues (stormwater filters, stormwater filtration, wastewater treatment self-contained units, stormwater detention systems, culvert / pipe reline, culvert pipe, bridges, etc.), so this is not a stretch for us.
When I looked online, there was a plethora of materials on how to ask your employer to install an EV charging station. Just could not find much about communications from employers to their employees after the charging stations had been insalled. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
NOTE: it helped / helps that our CEO recently got a Tesla and parks a few spots away from my Leaf!!!
The cord that points to the reserved spot is metered to us directly. The other cord is metered to the common area of the building (like lights in the lobby, elevator, outlets in the lobby, etc.) and are eventually divided up and paid for by the tenants of the building.
I am working with the Landlord to make sure they properly sign the public space(s) for EV so the spaces don't get ICEd. I assume the Landlord is going to permit anyone to charge in those spots and not mark it "For Tenants Only," but I won't know until the signage goes up.
What I am most interested in is signage for our cord & communications to our employees about the availability.
SIGNAGE - something like "For COMPANY employees. If you have questions about charging, please contact NUMBER or [email protected]." I am willing to put my work # on there to answer the questions when they come in and can probably get the [email protected] email set up and routed to me. If a non-employee is in need of a charge, I would be willing to move my car to allow them to charge. I suspect the requests will be fairly infrequent. I would put the same info on PlugShare when I add the 2 cords. Seems reasonable to me to restrict it and sign it as such since we negotiated its existence and are directly paying the electric.
COMMUNICATION - I want to send an email announcement to all employees in the company headquarters to let them know the chargers exist and the protocol / etiquette for using them. Guidelines would be to use the public charger 1st, if available, and to use proper etiquette when doing so (don't charge there every day [i.e., don't consider it your main charger], use only as much / long as you need, move car when finished, be courteous to others, leave a note, etc.). Second point would be to contact me if the public charger is unavailable and you need a charge. I will move my car and allow you to charge under the same guidelines (don't charge there every day [i.e., don't consider it your main charger], use only as much / long as you need, move car when finished, be courteous to others, leave a note, etc.). Also want to encourage them to contact me if they are considering a pure EV or a plug-in / hybrid car to discuss. Finally, I would like to start the communication off with COMPANY is an environmentally friendly corporate citizen and, as such, we installed the chargers. YADA, YADA, YADA. We do lots of Earth Day activities and sell several products that are linked to environmental issues (stormwater filters, stormwater filtration, wastewater treatment self-contained units, stormwater detention systems, culvert / pipe reline, culvert pipe, bridges, etc.), so this is not a stretch for us.
When I looked online, there was a plethora of materials on how to ask your employer to install an EV charging station. Just could not find much about communications from employers to their employees after the charging stations had been insalled. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
NOTE: it helped / helps that our CEO recently got a Tesla and parks a few spots away from my Leaf!!!
