Charging etiquette

EV at Tims have the licence plate GREED E?

They should put a sign at the charger, for customer use only.
Then when they see the person leave again, tow.
Or less extreme, jsu go unplug it the second the person leaves
They'll get the hint eventually.

Owners of the charger should just flip the breaker off at night, the moochers will find some other place to steal electricity

Some will see nothing wrong with this. Heck, there could even be a legitimate reason.

Those charging stations are on the VER network. I don't know what their policy or Tim Horton's is - but there should be a good case for illegal parking for both vehicles. Plus, it's the kind of thing social networking thrives on. Somebody get out there with a camera.

My question is, why does someone who can afford to buy an EV see the need to steal electricity?

If I were the store owner I would leave a note on the car, and if they do it again, have it towed. Also, isn't it a waste to have an ICE solely to drive to your EV? Seems totally backwards, just drive the gas car at that point.

So they use $1 gasoline to steal $1.40 electricity? Something else is going on here. How do we know the authorization or reason for this observed behavior?

My question is, why does someone who can afford to buy an EV see the need to steal electricity?

They probably live in a nearby apartment or condo with no place to plug in the Volt. Wifey drops hubby off at TH on the way to work. People will take advantage of anything they can. No good deed goes unpunished. That's exactly why I don't waste my time looking for public charging. Thank God (Bob Lutz?) for the range extender.

Noel Park said:

They probably live in a nearby apartment or condo with no place to plug in the Volt.

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To an extent I agree with Noel. I can think of scenarios where one would have to recharge at a public charger at night. I would hope that if a person has nowhere to recharge, they don't buy an EV but get a Prius instead. Possibly they had to move from a place where they could charge to one where they can no longer charge.

That said, I would strongly disagree with having the charger turned off at night. As one who was stuck in his BEV, late at night, with not enough charge to get home, I would hate to see another public charger turned off when someone might legitimately and desparately nee it.

I do feel that the culprit has outstayed his welcome at that charger, and the staff at the restaurant should leave a note or take other measures to disconnect him.

Noel Park said:

My question is, why does someone who can afford to buy an EV see the need to steal electricity?

They probably live in a nearby apartment or condo with no place to plug in the Volt. Wifey drops hubby off at TH on the way to work. People will take advantage of anything they can. No good deed goes unpunished. That's exactly why I don't waste my time looking for public charging. Thank God (Bob Lutz?) for the range extender.

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Yes, I take a kind of perverse pride in not using public charging. The different twist here is that they are leaving their ICE car in the Tim's lot all day while they drive the EV (not known to be a Volt) and then come back, plug in, leave it for the night, and drive home.