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Interesting. Where do you run into this? I've never encountered it in the U.S (east coast). If you're in Europe, maybe this is a concerning glimpse of where we're heading in the U.S. Although I think a charger with those restrictions would be ineligible for U.S. National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure ("NEVI") funds, so maybe we can hope that there is a strong enough disincentive for now?

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Here in northern New Jersey there are many chargers that are inside municipal parking garages. Since you have to pay to enter (technically, to leave) you have to pay for parking time to use those chargers. That's obviously not an issue if you would be parking there anyway, but if you lived in the area and just wanted or needed to use the charger you'd have to pay an additional $1 - $2 per hour on top of the charges from the charger.

I'm not sure what the state of the chargers being installed at local businesses is. My local grocery store has four chargers now, but I don't recall seeing any signage about them being for customers only. They share the parking lot with the church across the street, though, so that may complicate things.

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