NYLEAF said:
The photos on Plugshare are mine, the description text isn't. Not sure where that information came from.
The day that I went, the breaker was on and no one noticed that I was charging. The station seems to be limited to 8.9kW and 10 minutes charging time. So, basically, ~6 miles of range per use (with permission). I'm calling it the Most Useless Quick Charger in America.
Good news, I sent a message to every related agency I could find via google, Department of energy, NY DOE, http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, and a few other NY state agencies, not sure which one forwarded my request to the right person in doe.gov but here was the reply I got today reguarding the useless status of the quick charger in Flushing NY.
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Thank you for your July 22, 2013 email to Secretary Moniz regarding an Electric Car DC quick charge station. It has been forwarded to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability for a response.
As you correctly stated, this station was installed at 5820 Francis Lewis Boulevard in Flushing, New York as part of an ARRA “Smart Grid Demonstration Program” project being performed by Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
This is still an active project thus all installation work and full functionalities have not been achieved at this time.
The current schedule for this charging station to function as a “quick charger” is September 6, 2013.
I hope that you find this information useful.
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Hopefully they will keep their word and make this quick charger useful.