When looking for charging stations in one of the various apps/websites do they show things like limited availability as in hours when you can’t use them?
I got to tour a new corporate facility the other day; they have a large parking garage that can charge 25-30 EVs at a time. The garage is open to the public evenings & weekends (per signs on the wall) but not during the business day or overnight hours. There are security arms that raise up to let you in / out so they could enforce the no public vehicles during the day if they so chose. While the garage is usable it’s not finished yet; there’s still construction equipment on the bottom floor. There are a bunch of boxes in one corner that are yet-to-be-installed panic/intercom systems; there are security cams installed only on the lowest two floors as of now. IOW, a lot of the not-required electrical items are still a work in progress so I’m not sure the EV chargers are up & running yet.
When the garage is completed & really open, would one expect to find these listed as a charging station, & if so, for only the ‘public’ hours? Thinking about this thread where he was going to be getting into town on fumes (electrons?) & maybe not even have the range to get in, let alone to an alternate charging station & if you were planning on charging there but potentially had to wait 15 hrs until it opened back up to the public, including the entire business day you’d be pretty pissed at being stuck.
Are the limited availability chargers common? Do they appear in apps & if so, denote their limited hours?
While many gas stations have limited hours,too they’re always overnight when the majority of stores are closed, not during the business day.