Dave, have you run anyone through the Tesla Destonation program recently? Last
Spring I tried getting an install going for the Dollywood Resort and was
getting a different story that what we had experienced in the past. No
financial assistance on the electrical install; no J1772 units offered. In
fact, Tesla started off wanting the site to buy the Destination charging
hardware from Tesla, so that wasn't even free. We finally got them to agree to
give us the Tesla wall connector units and pedestals, but only because we're a
non-profit. My recent experiences with Tesla have been drastically different
from a couple of years ago when they had regional charging coordinators we
could work with directly.I second your opinion on Blink/Car Charging. We had
20-some Blinks we were operating as free charging stations around East
Tennessee and the screens constantly failed. Even though our non-profit was
legally the owner of the hardware after the EV Project concluded, Car Charging
tried to claim we weren't and force us into an expensive service contract.
When we refused the service contract they disabled the EVSEs where they were
unusable and had to be abandoned.Bob
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Infrastructure _ Alternative Green Energy Solutions
Thank you Dave – helpful information!
Peace
Jonathan
East TN Clean Fuels Coalition + Tennessee Clean Fuels
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
865-974-3625 – office | 865-803-7555 – cell
jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.TNCleanFuels.org
From: knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Hrivnak, David James
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:06 AM
To: knoxev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [knoxev] Re: Fwd: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green
Energy Solutions
Unfortunately like many things at Tesla it is a form on the web, a simple two
pager I believe and then you submit the electrical bid and if approved they
send the chargers and then pay the electrician directly.
https://www.tesla.com/charging-partners
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On Behalf Of Overly, Jonathan G (Redacted sender "jgoverly" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:06 AM
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Subject: [knoxev] Re: Fwd: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green
Energy Solutions
Dave,
Who’s the best person to contact with Tesla to inquire about the destination
charger program?
Also, found out the other day that the GRSM is woefully understaffed right now.
Going to be difficult to get their response/approval/concurrence on anything we
might want to do in the park in the coming months.
Peace
Jonathan
East TN Clean Fuels Coalition + Tennessee Clean Fuels
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
865-974-3625 – office | 865-803-7555 – cell
jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.TNCleanFuels.org
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On Behalf Of Dave Hrivnak
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:59 AM
To: knoxev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [knoxev] Re: Fwd: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green
Energy Solutions
To me Blink ended up meaning on the blink as in they did not work. They had a
touch screen interface that was totally unusable after about 2 years. Very
poor repair record. Try Tesla’s destination charger
program. They will donate good high quality units and help pay an electrician
to install. The put in a mix of Tesla and J-1772 plugs.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 10, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Overly, Jonathan G <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dave,
Just history… Blink was the equipment company that emerged out of the ARRA (to
use dirty words, “Stimulus”) funding from 2009 that began with “The EV Project”
and ECOtality. If I remember correctly, $150M in fed. funding, $150M in cost
share. The three western states (CA< OR, WA), TN, TX and DC ended up being the
trial states where infrastructure was installed… and learned from. Some things
went OK, but then the project went totally south as in belly up. The equipment
they installed was…
Blink (the cute “i” and “n” combined… I like the design). Most of the
equipment project wide and in TN was operational about 50% of the time – not
good. I first-hand – owning a Leaf at the time – saw units all over the place
where two L2s were installed and
perhaps one worked. Some regularly working units were my mainstay in downtown
Knoxville because that was all we had.
Video of me charging at a
Blink DCFC in Athens… back when it was there.
I can’t remember what year (2014?) a new group (now called CarCharging) bought
out what remained of equipment and started trying to make something out of the
ashes. Clearly they are still doing so, but my comment below comes from all the
above, and the fact they still charge to much to charge. Also, had a blink
wall unit on my home for 3 years. Had problem within the first week and,
luckily, BESCO had fixed so many of them that they basically knew what the
problem was and although informed
by Blink at the time that they couldn’t swap parts, they had “several” broken
ones and used a part of one of those to fix mine. It worked the rest of the
time but was a) in the shade, b) not in a public place where it could be easily
broken, and c) and also
out of the elements.
Jonathan
East TN Clean Fuels Coalition
+ Tennessee Clean Fuels
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
865-974-3625 – office | 865-803-7555 – cell
jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.TNCleanFuels.org
From: knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of David Mason
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:13 PM
To: knoxev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [knoxev] Re: Fwd: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green
Energy Solutions
Jonathan, why do you think that is? I’m trying to get my employer to consider
installation of a few stations to take advantage of the tax credits expiring
12/31.
I’d mentioned blink and a few others is why I ask.
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On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Overly, Jonathan G <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Clearly new… the “Sustainability Dept. of TN.” Blink is like the hunchback of
Notre Dame – nobody wants to look at it.
Jonathan
East TN Clean Fuels Coalition
+ Tennessee Clean Fuels
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
865-974-3625 – office | 865-803-7555 – cell
jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.TNCleanFuels.org
From: knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <knoxev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Gary Bulmer
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:42 PM
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Subject: [knoxev] Fwd: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green Energy
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[External Email]
FYI, in case anyone is interested in this.
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From: Conseulo Capshaw <CCapshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:18 AM
Subject: EV Charging Infrastructure _ Alternative Green Energy Solutions
To: gpbulmer@xxxxxxxxx <gpbulmer@xxxxxxxxx>
Hello Gary
I’m new to the Blink team here in Knoxville and wanted to connect as a local
point of contact for you and the Sustainability Department of Tennessee . I’m
working on offering EV Charging Infrastructures and supporting alternative
green energy solutions.
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I’m not sure this necessarily falls on your plate, as electric vehicles
continue to appeal to consumers, there is a growing need for public charging
stations across cities, counties, and states.. That being said, I wanted to see
if you’d be open to learning
how we can enhance the current community sustainability and green living
initiatives with EV Charging Stations. . Thanks for your time and looking
forward to helping anyway that I can.
Regards,
Conseulo
Conseulo Capshaw
Executive Sales Manager
blink
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O: 305.521.0200 ext. 410
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