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Anyone seen this yet? What do you think this will do to the charging infrastructure.
Ecotality Exploring Restructuring or Sale, Cites List of Challenges - WSJ.com
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August 12, 2013: We wanted you to know that the needs of our drivers are paramount to us and despite the challenges we currently face, we will continue to operate the Blink Network and maintain our Blink chargers until further notice. We urge you to visit a Blink charger today and show that you support the growth of a public charging infrastructure.
Yep.. the family that started the company has siphoned off millions and millions of dollars.. they ran a scam under the guise of EV-goodness. It's a demonstration of what happens to government subsidies in unscrupulous hands (vs when someone like Elon gets involved).
Sounds like 350green.com?Yep.. the family that started the company has siphoned off millions and millions of dollars.. they ran a scam under the guise of EV-goodness. It's a demonstration of what happens to government subsidies in unscrupulous hands (vs when someone like Elon gets involved).
The "over priced installers" were a number of sub-contractors and were required to be paid union wages per the DOE contract. Yes, this resulted in expensive quotes that your non-union electrician could easily beat. That said, the Nissan/AV quotes people were getting were in the same ball park as the Ecotality/Blink quotes from what I saw and people getting quotes from other charging station manufacturers still provide expensive quotes.The "free" EVSEs they offered required using only their grossly over priced local installers. They the would charge the customer for the extra "over" the government provided amount.
Living on the edge! Any significant voltage drop? I think if you can do that without seeing significant voltage drop and if only charging for a short period of time you'd be OK, though I would not recommend it!I also successfully pushed all stations to give me 38 amps well above the 30 amp limit and saw no overheating.
I think most realize that most Ecotality employees were trying to do the right thing, but the executives are as you describe and ran the company into the ground. Your comments above are worth repeating.These whores knew the company was going down and dumped as many shares as they could before filing the 8-K. Marxe and Greenhouse are scum.
Austin Marxe and David Greenhouse dump 434,000 shares of Ecotality from June 14 to July 24, 2013 at about $1.65/share then Form 8-K is filed on August 12, 2013 stating "...the Company has experienced certain material adverse developments that in the aggregate significantly impact its ability to meet its ongoing obligation and to fund anticipated operating losses". These whores knew the company was going down and dumped as many shares as they could before filing the 8-K. Marxe and Greenhouse are scum.
The "over priced installers" were a number of sub-contractors and were required to be paid union wages per the DOE contract.
Ecotality has made some serious mistakes that I've found to be very frustrating; so I don't want to sound like a cheerleader. But I do think some of the accusations are not supported by the evidence (It is entirely possible I have not seen all the evidence; but that is just all the more reason it should be shown here if it exists).
My normal licensed electrician "pays" himself far more than a "union wage", and it would have been less than 1/2 what they charged.
They gave you no option to use anyone except the company they contracted locally. So no competition and there was mostly likely a nice little kickback for them. They charged approximately $500/hour for installation. If that is an electrician's "union wage" I'm in the wrong field...
Also, the only reason it took 3 hours (he only needed to change an outlet, type, mount the unit on the wall and configure the software), is the installer had no idea what he was doing. More then half the time he spent reading the manual and on the phone with Blink/Ecotality.