ambudriver03
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I’d like to see 15 or 20 amp 120v outlets installed at each parking spot, especially for places where people tend to park for hours or days at a time (ie, work, airports, bus stations, etc). No need to play musical cars and 8 hours of charging could get the vast majority of people where they need to go after work.
The hospital next to my house, installed about 20 nema 5-20 outlets, and since most hospital employees work 12 hour shifts, 20 amps seems to be more than accommodating for many of the employees.
They aren't putting up signs saying "EV parking only", but it seems that unless there aren't any other spaces available, people see the AC outlet in front of each spot, and figured it out.
Look up open evse....caltech in Pasadena has it installed. PlugShare screenshot below.
the engineering behind this was fairly brilliant, they used all open source software with a mix of tesla HPWCs and other third party hardware. The proof of concept project was successful enough that they spun it off into its own company.