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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258882

Yes for the same story but the point of view is different.

As far as carrot and stick go its fairly crude.

A more "entertaining" way to punish parkers would be to log how much time they waste parking, provide a reasonable allowance (whatever, fifteen minutes per month will be waived) then refuse to start charging until the time is paid back. Or decelerate the fast charge to make up for the time. People in a hurry will not like it when they come back to their car in 30 minutes and its not begun charging.

Even more amusingly would be gamification playing into the well known range anxiety problem where every ten minutes the car sits there, its discharged back into the grid 5%.

I would be interested in reading the Supercharger agreement between Tesla owners and Tesla to see if this fee is allowed. As far as I understood, access to the Supercharger stations was included in the price of the package that Tesla owners bought without exception.

What an unfortunate attitude.

Free charge yes, but not free parking. That is the issue here. Something needs to be done about this issue. I live in Norway and we are seeing huge problems with EV owners clogging the charging stations depriving others of charging. Now since the number of EV owners is getting so big, people can't hog the spaces.

Right, they get the charging free, though I'm not sure that includes unlimited parking once charging is complete (though I haven't actually read the agreement myself either).

Indeed. So, how are the other Tesla owners allowed access, if there's always someone hogging the charger as a parking spot?

One option to curb the abuse is to increase the fee each team they abuse a parking spot. Eventually the fee would be high enough that even the rich will balk at it. Over time the fee could be brought back down.

In this instance the right move seems to have been made, but I do worry that stories like this will enable a new kind of techno-fascism. If Musk can change people's lives on timescales orders of magnitudes faster than governments, its going to go a long way to undermine people's faith in those governments.

I hoped this was about his tunnel boring tweet.

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