Getting Unplugged & Plugged at LAX

Interesting. In case you haven't heard, here's a heads-up: as of March 1, 2013, there will be no free parking in Lots 1 or 6 for EV vehicles. Bummer.

 

Where you parked on the inside portion closest to the terminal? Backed in?

 

I thought it was weird your charging door was open, so I wanted to check and make sure you were charged. To my surprise you weren't so I left you plugged in.
I work at LAX so I try to make sure everyone is charged and the cords are wound up nicely.
I wish there was a way for me to move the fully charged cars to allow the others to charge.
I loved seeing that white Tesla Model S, such a great looking car. Nice photo!

 

Are the charging cables there part of the airport facilities or your own?

 

Great story, thanks. Not pluging in yet, but wife love's the second Prius, more power, better mph.

P. S. See what Photo Block does to the Hummer plate, works great. No Photo tickets yet.

knock, knock.

Vern

 

it's a public L2 charger. i have yet to see one that didn't have its own cord.

 

I hope the manufacturers will come up with a universal backlit symbol which indicates the car is fully charged, since this is probably going to occur more often.

 

As much as I hate saying this, I have to agree with the statement that it was more important to charge his car than yours. You have gas engine in case you run out of battery. And not just some emergency gas engine, one which gets 50MPG

The Tesla cars, Nissan LEAF, they might not make it back home, and count on the fact that certain facilities have chargers available.

Would be cool if 1 Charging Station had 2 cables, allowing it to charge 2 cars in sequence (and decide which one first based on if it has a gas engine, or if the battery is lower in 1 car than the other).

Don't get me wrong, it was rude, but I do understand why someone with a pure EV might do this.

 

You don't know what the status of these parking spots were when he arrived (might have been the last spot). As for bad planning, your options are somewhat limited when it comes to charging. A 100% electric car owner sees the Prius as another gas car (heck, most people don't even know about the PiP variant), so yea, they will probably be pissed, and act like a jerk, just like most of us get pissed when we get ICEd, but at least it isn't a major issue.

While I agree that it sucks, and there is no need for people like that to be a jerk about this, his options were somewhat limited.

 

Can you give me exact directions to those spots? You enter in arrivals from what I see. Then what? Do you go inside the lot to get to the outside or how do you get there?

 

What goes around come around. One day it'll be them sat on the runway....

 

Great! thank you!

 

Not to take sides or anything.

I myself parked at LAX and looked for those charging stations once before and I noticed that people are not parking where they should be and using the charging stations.

Those charging stations are out side with parking in front of those stations.

I've seen MANY MANY ppl use the end of the inside parking and STEALING the charging station plugs that were ment to be used outside.

I personally think that is wrong. You felt bad taking the parking but yet you took that plug from the charging station for that specific parking spot that you felt bad for taking.

What good is that out door parking without that charging plug? Would you park there if theres no charging stations? I think not.

He or she might of parked at that spot where you took the charger from and used it on him/her where it should of been.

Think about it.