Free Grace period public chargers in Burbank

Burbank California has installed a number of public Chargepoint chargers. Apparently these chargers will be free until 07/01/2012, and $2 an hour thereafter. If you have a credit card with an RFID tag you can use the chargers now, without being charged a fee, or you can apply for a Chargepoint card, or apparently you can call a phone number on the sign.

There are other charging stations in Downtown Burbank (in the IKEA parking lot) which is charging a fee now.



http://www.burbankwaterandpower.com/download/EV_charging_locations_flyer.pdf

 

Yesterday, I found a pair of stations. A Chevy Volt and driver was just about to leave. He used his Chargepoint card to unlock a charging station for me. After he left, and I read the instructions I found out that one of my credit cards has the tap symbol on it. I used it on the second station, and used the second station to charge the Segway that was in my hatchback.

When you unlock the station you have a choice of pulling out the charge cable which plugs into the Prius charge recepticle, or you can open a door which exposes a 120 V heavy duty plug. You can't use both at the same time on the same station; however, there were two stations there, one for my Prius, and one for the Segway.