Very true. I've seen some tech companies doing this in conjunction with adding roof solar to get tax breaks. Are other industries stepping up as well?
Of course in hind-sight I recall we had about 16 chargers at the time we had over 20k employees. There were a lot of Tesla's in the parking lot but many of those people were older and had homes. Those chargers also caused a lot of drama. People would unplug other peoples cars, the other people would send videos from their Tesla to corporate security. I would just park my old ICE truck near the front door since I got to work early.
In 2014 or 2015 I worked with a guy who wanted charging at the office. We didn't have it, so he just started running an extension cord from his car into the building. IIRC they got mad at him not for taking the electricity but because he was leaving the door ajar to do it.
Honestly, it's kind of blatantly transparent that corporate climate change initiatives are meaningless when they insist workers commute to the office when we just spent the last few years proving we would work from home. I'm thankful my employer still lets us WFH and it greatly helps our recruitment and retention.
Agreed. I assumed the push for EV's was to buy the US and EU time to refine their processes around CNG refinement, storage and transport and to avoid dependence on Saudi (for US)/Russian (for EU) oil. That's nearly a done deal in the US. CNG not far from me is $2.25/gallon. No idea how far along the EU is or if the plan is for the US to sell CNG to the EU.
All climate change initiatives that don't directly reduce either mass or reducing the distance the mass is moved are meaningless.
Which means, the only initiative for climate change that ever needed to happen is a higher and higher taxes on fossil fuels, and everything would flow downhill from that.
But that was never on the table, so it was always all just lip service.
> Which means, the only initiative for climate change that ever needed to happen is a higher and higher taxes on fossil fuels, and everything would flow downhill from that.
We effectively managed it in Canada, but it’s become political poison.
Employers need to step up their game and start offering charging if they want people in the office.