Airport charging and the nerve of some individuals

[Outdoors]

Yes it’s daily lot for those on extended stays and the airports policy is I can keep it plugged in for the remainder of my trip. Whether it’s 1 day or 2 weeks honestly shouldn’t matter. If you’re parking your car for 2 days do you really need a charger ? No but it’s there. I like having peace of mind knowing sentry is running my car is staying cool with cabin overheat protection.

My airports ev policy

If ya follow the rules. They are the rules. The airport should either change policy or put in more stalls. Don't fault the people that do exactly what the rules say.

It is long term parking. These are long term stalls. Amazing people can't read today.

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[SlegMD]

Meh, definitely an oversight. One person taking 1/6 EV stalls for an entire airport for two weeks, I’m sure someone could have used that stall. Actually, they did lol. Hope they change the policy or add more stalls for sure.

 

[freyguy]

Meh, definitely an oversight. One person taking 1/6 EV stalls for an entire airport for two weeks, I’m sure someone could have used that stall. Actually, they did lol. Hope they change the policy or add more stalls for sure.

yeah there’s not many but here’s my thing if your gone 1-3 days do you really need to plug in? In my opinion no, the ones staying over a week need the juice for added security of sentry mode. The people fling out for a weekend are only gonna lose 10-15 percent max. If they charge up prior to traveling they would be fine. This is why the long stays over a week shouldn’t get hate being plugged in. And tbh that person can’t tell if I’m there day, 3 days, or a month. They still had no business unplugging my vehicle.

 

[Outdoors]

One can go to budget parking for that no service, and let battery degrade off airport, and take a shuttle. This lot is long term lot with benefits at the airport, which equals a premium price. People don't go to long term parking to plug in car and walk into the airport for some period of time and come back. That would be short term parking. Hence long term.

If the policy was changed to only plug in for 12 hours or less. Guess what. No one would be able to use them. So they would sit unused. They are needed, and if the user was able to find a spot means they must not be in super demand. User wasn't sitting waiting for a stall to open.

Don't touch peoples stuff.

 

[SlegMD]

I agree that they should not touch your vehicle. Everything else you should have to make accommodation for.

 

[freyguy]

I’m not really here to beat a dead horse but yes this person was wrong to remove my changer point blank. It’s free I pay for parking I have the right if I find an open stall to use.

Buttt those if you still following along it gets better. This person parked at 11:39 in the morning with no bags and what appeared to be a uniform. Come 3:29pm the same day and they are seen leaving the garage.

daily parking is $3 an hour and $12 max a day. The hourly rate parking is $5 an hour and max $25. So clearly this person already wants to believe they can cheap out on parking and being there for 4 hours only pay $12 instead of $20.

now to the airport or the public what constitutes as hourly and when should you consider daily in my opinion should be over 8 hours. Under 8 should be hourly but there’s no way to enforce this at the airport.

so I can see why daily parking garage’s are being used because anything over 3 hours is significantly cheaper to park in daily parking.

***the red rectangle is the garage I was in***

 

[freyguy]

Exhibit A and Exhibit B of the person pulling the plug and them leaving.

 

[Gaximus]

I dont agree with the OP occupying the "limited" parking spot for days just to trickle charge, the same "absolutely no respect!!!!! ?" can as easily apply to him. Should've found a parking near a receptacle and just use mobile connector to trickle charge, some long term lots have those (I used them in the past).

Now, could've the woman re-plug? I dont think she could unless the charging cable had the tesla charging handle button of which would open Tesla charging port. I know the OP said that she didnt even try, and that's wrong too. She also didnt know if the OP was parked for days or was returning soon. Yeah, shitty situation all around.

I agree a bit here too, OP said they were gone for 2 weeks. And at trickle rates that the equivalent of filling up at a gas station and leaving the nozzle in for 2 weeks.

 

[eswimm]

I regularly use the chargers in airport parking. It's a parking lot, not a charging lot; nobody is coming into the lot and paying $8/hr looking for a 6kW charge. The expectation in an airport parking lot is that you're getting on a plane, so any space is for the duration of your trip. Hotel charging is a different story, I move once I'm charged; that can still mean occupying the space all night with a 6-8kW charge. If anything, a longer trip benefits more from the charge than a short one, 2 weeks on a flat rate $5 charge can mean more than 100kWh w/ Sentry enabled.

 

[freyguy]

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I regularly use the chargers in airport parking. It's a parking lot, not a charging lot; nobody is coming into the lot and paying $8/hr looking for a 6kW charge. The expectation in an airport parking lot is that you're getting on a plane, so any space is for the duration of your trip. Hotel charging is a different story, I move once I'm charged; that can still mean occupying the space all night with a 6-8kW charge. If anything, a longer trip benefits more from the charge than a short one, 2 weeks on a flat rate $5 charge can mean more than 100kWh w/ Sentry enabled.

Valid!!! This is exactly how I look at it. If I’m gone 2-3 days I won’t bother. But airports have shit security and I like the creature comfort of leaving sentry on especially at an airport where your parking at your own risk.

If you get hit or broken into the airport won’t offer any assistance.

 

[scottyah]

Exhibit A and Exhibit B of the person pulling the plug and them leaving.

Where's Exhibit C of the license plate? That might be doxxing though, better check the site rules

 

[freyguy]

Where's Exhibit C of the license plate? That might be doxxing though, better check the site rules

Yeah it’s not my business to post a plate and honestly didn’t look to see if it even caught it. The garage lighting isn’t the best so odds are it’s not legibile.

I was just showcasing how this person was parked for 4 hours had an id bade on arm so assuming they work at airport. They were a beep beep beep for parking in daily parking to start with so f them!! ?

 

[txtravwill]

I dunno, I feel like Teslas with long range don't need the chargers as much as some EVs. Even if just want to keep sentry mode on... it's on until 20% at least. Perhaps if you arrived at a very low state of charge makes sense to plug in but otherwise I wouldn't want to take up an EV stall for 2 weeks where we are, there is just a couple charge point chargers... but a high voltage one near by outside of airport for if need when return in a pinch.

 

[TeslaKen]

For next time:

*call to airport security* - "Hey guys, I have video footage of a woman tampering with EV chargers. Can you please go check out, it's located at [parking space#].

Give them full descriptions of the person, what they were wearing, what car they have. Ask if they have an email address you can send the video to, and offer to pay someone $20 to plug your truck back in.

Tampering with someone's vehicle is illegal. And if you are paying for a charging session, then it becomes theft too. If the airport security can't be bothered, call the police and put out an arrest warrant for the person who did it. May sound overboard, but I'm sick and tired of people thinking they can get away with f****** with someone else's private property.

These types of people only face consequences when someone actually does something about it.

If you had Ambient.ai monitoring the cameras focused on the garage it would alert the authorities any time it spotted someone doing this, whether or not the airport security would actually do something is another matter, but with Ambient.ai at least they would get the alert it was in progress!

 

[AlmostHuman]

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