yoyofella
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mxp said:This problem will get worse: Same thing happened at SFO recently. That night, I decided to ICE it. Luckily I did. I was at SFO for 3 hrs and the same 2 Leafs parked in the EV spots were still there when I returned to the parking lot. One was parked, NOT even plugged in. The other offending Leaf was plugged in and fully charged. No placards, nothing.
Lots of Leafs on the roads and lots of uneducated EV drivers these days.... :-(
That might have been my blue Leaf, though I disagree with the notion that I'm an "uneducated EV driver". I frequently take day trips from SFO (fly out in the morning, fly back in evening) and I usually park in one of the 6 EV spots on Garage A or G designated as the day-parking. Typically I'll arrive with 2~3 bars remaining, and will take about 5 hours to fully charge the car. I specifically chose those parking spots because it's a more "intermediate" parking spot. If I must move the car after it's done charging, then it basically means day trippers like me cannot use those spots to charge. By the way, this is by no means a "free parking", we are paying $20/day to park in that garage. For multi-day trips I plan on using the long term parking charging spots.
Thankfully SFO set up 15 other charging spots in their short term parking area so I have no doubt other more short-term drivers should have no problem finding a spot to charge. Though I agree with what others have said: they need to map at least 2 parking spots per charging station to make plug-sharing feasible.