{"id":12248,"date":"2017-10-11T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2017-10-11T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:27:15","slug":"getting-charged-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/11\/getting-charged-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Charged Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Grover on\u00a0<i><b>Treehugger.com\u00a0<\/b><\/i>relays his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/cars\/how-set-public-electric-vehicle-charging-station-part-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/cars\/how-set-public-electric-vehicle-charging-station-part-ii.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507847668975000&amp;usg=AFQjCNERVyPRqDDbac-f3jUsmfKrD5TfIw\">discussion\u00a0<\/a>with the owner of the Mayton Inn, a provider of electric charging stations, concerning her experiences:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>Unlike some locations, which restrict access to hotel or restaurant guests, The Mayton has made their charging stations available free to use by any member of the public. I ask Deanna about this and she&#8217;s very frank with her answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why would I restrict it? The cost is next to nothing. Nobody would pay attention if I did try to police it. And folks are likely to come in and have a drink as a goodwill gesture anyway.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can confirm that I validated Deanna&#8217;s point, staying for an extra hour over a pint of delicious ESB in order to charge our plug-in hybrid for the journey home. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is just one more example among many that the scare stories about a lack of charging infrastructure are overblown, at best, and complete nonsense at worst. The infrastructure is there. You see the results of it every time you flip a light switch. It&#8217;s simply a question of providing access. As more businesses install Level 2 charging as a perk for customers, employees and guests, I suspect range anxiety will rapidly become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;ll still need truly fast, scalable charging infrastructure for the occasional road trip\u2014and there&#8217;s work to be done there. But pressure on those stations will be greatly reduced by the fact that most of us will be setting off with a &#8220;full tank&#8221;, even if we&#8217;re on the road and have stayed overnight at a place like The Mayton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The less anxiety, the more quickly the technology will be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Grover on\u00a0Treehugger.com\u00a0relays his\u00a0discussion\u00a0with the owner of the Mayton Inn, a provider of electric charging stations, concerning her experiences: Unlike some locations, which restrict access to hotel or restaurant guests, The Mayton has made their charging stations available free to use by any member of the public. I ask Deanna \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/11\/getting-charged-up\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}