Mysql was forked as Mariadb.. for no good reason it seems, seeing as Oracle didn't break anything in the 15 years since.
No good reason if you ignore what happened to OpenSolaris and Java, I guess.
No European search engines to choose from?
Ecosia, which I've been using for over a year, and Qwant. Both source from Bing and Google as well whilst they continue to expand EUSP (European Search Perspective), a search index built by Ecosia and Qwant and based in Paris.
What alternative? Without regulation every single service will be just as bad.
Ecosia and Qwant both European search engines. Both are currently in the process of developing EUSP (European Search Perspective), a search index built by Ecosia and Qwant, based in Paris, so they have to rely less on Bing and Google Search.
This isn't a crisis. There are no jacked up prices. This is a fixed fee for a product that is shown up front. There's nothing to investigate. Fine use the term arsehole if you want, but then just note that pretty much every business which provides EV chargers to employees is now an arsehole.
I guess you would be happy to pay $420 to charge a Chevy Bolt since the prices aren't jacked up, then. Crises or not, many states will prosecute over this behavior. it's illegal in Michigan where this asshole's business is. See section Z of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.
I guess the only way to not be arseholes is to instead tell people who desperately need a charge to go fuck themselves and look elsewhere. That's kindness in your eyes right?
I don't know where the "desperation" excuse has materialized among this dealership's supporters. This was naivete. Someone else pointed out another charger was listed a couple miles away on the EVGO app .
And kindness is not to advertise a charger as public and proceed to rip off the people who try to use it. I have a privately owned L2 charger installed in my garage. Since it's not public, am I telling people who are desperate for a charge to fuck themselves too?
Induced demand is otherwise known as Commerce. It's a good thing.
It's not an EVGo charger. It's a Chargepoint charger that the car owner accessed via a roaming agreement in the EVGo app. This is made clear in TFA.
But I wonder if the dealership is received some kind of credit for having a "public" charger, while discouraging the public from actually using it via the outrageous pricing.
Thanks for the correction. Chargepoint and AmpUp specifically use the business model of setting up public L2 chargers and taking a cut of the revenue while letting the "owner" set the price. I avoid them because there are too many that appear to be set up be opportunistic grifters. I had never heard of anything as egregious as this one though.
I have never been to any EVGO branded stations and there are none close to me. It sounds like they are more DCFC than L2. They look more like a legitimate company.
If the dealer doesn't want random EV drivers using it, the network should be able to mark it as private or customer-only. A $5/kWh + $5/minute "deterrent" is a pretty lousy substitute for accurate access information.
Being public is the price to be paid for having EVGO install and maintain an EV charger. They want all the benefits of someone else taking care of it but not the responsibilities that come along.
No it's more like complaining about $20 hot dogs from a corporate canteen while the employees get it for free.
You don't expect a street vendor on Yelp to be in a random business's parking lot. But in any case the charger listed the fee on the screen, it's up to you to walk away when the fee is displayed.
Except nearly every public charger is in some random business's parking lot. You are doubling down on excusing these dickheads for gouging the public.
Car dealership ran by piece of shit.
No. A business has every right to put an EV charger outside for THEIR customers. For example a restaurant or a store. An employer putting up chargers for its employees. However such a charger should be plainly identified as such with its signage, that it is for customers or employees not the public at large. Costco gas pumps need to see a Costco membership before pumping. EV chargers could do something similar to restrict to customers or employees.
They are pieces of shit. If they want a private charger, they should install their own private charger like I did and manage it themselves like I do. They want a public charger installed, maintained, managed and listed by a public charger company but want to keep the public out. They want all the benefits of someone else installing and taking care of the charger but none of the responsibility that comes with it. This absolutely makes them pieces of shit. As I said in an earlier post, this might have been enough to trigger anti-gouging laws in my state and gotten them into deep legal trouble.
This is not assholes, this is actually quite normal. It allows people access to quick power in an emergency. It allows companies to get infrastructure installed for their own purposes. And it allows the use of large companies like EVGo's expertise for quick install.
This is most certainly asshole behavior. They willingly agreed to accept the condition of being a publicly available charger in exchange for EVGO network installing, maintaining and managing billing for their charger. Then they set billing prices high enough to make a single charge cost $400+? They want the benefits of EVGO's network without any of the liabilities.
My state has prosecuted gas station owners for jacking up prices during crisis events with less cost impact. Our local DA would probably investigate this kind of thing if it went viral around here. This is textbook asshole behavior.
The world is expected to add another 2 billion people from 2025 to 2060, increasing global population from around 8 billion to around 10 billion... "Over one-half of that growth (1.148 billion) is projected to come from an increase in the population aged 65 and over,"
How the hell does that happen? Are people born already age 65 plus?
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
