Friday night, July 22, I attended the monthly Von Karman lecture held at Vosloh Forum on the NE side of the PCC campus. I was able to charge (L2) at one of the two new ChargePoint stations at the North end of the first floor of parking structure 5, which is only 100 yards south of the lecture hall. Both stations appeared fully functional. This event marked several firsts for me:
1. First opportunity to charge while attending a non-Leaf, non-EV event.
2. First time I had to pay:
$.50 per session from my ChargePoint card (correctly listed on ChargePoint web site) and
$2.00 for all-day parking permit. These rates seemed quite reasonable to me, although in the evening between school sessions the parking structure was almost deserted (but well-lit).
3. Another Leaf (white) was parked right outside the Vosloh auditorium. This is my first sighting of a Leaf "in the wild" at a non-Leaf event. I did not get a chance to connect to its owner(s).
I was there 1.5 hours, so I got about 3 bars of charge. This was very convenient. We need QC stations, of course, but we also need a whole bunch of well-located L2 stations, like these.
The lecture itself was good. The topic was "Hot Water: The Oceans and Global Warming." The speaker, Dr. Josh Willis, has a good sense of humor. Note his title on his business card, which was conferred on him by a congressman who publicly ridiculed one of his papers.