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Last fall George Betak, then an employee at Yahoo\u2019s headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, needed to be somewhere by 6 p.m. He planned to drive there in his BMW Active E but needed to first charge his all-electric vehicle.<\/p>\n

Problem was all of the charging stations that the company provided were occupied. Betak noticed that one vehicle\u2014a Chevy Volt, a hybrid with electric and gasoline engines\u2014appeared to have finished charging, so he unplugged it for a half-hour boost to his own car.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Volt owner was furious,\u201d Betak told the press later. \u201cHe sent out this email blast saying that I stole his charge. It was awful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation Betak describes\u2014\u201ccharge rage\u201d\u2014is becoming increasingly common, especially in northern California, where PG&E<\/a> expects electric vehicle (EV) ownership to jump from 20,000 today to 800,000 by 2020. Workplaces that offer charging stations — an assumed perk in Silicon Valley (along with stock options and on-site sushi chefs) — can\u2019t keep up with rising EV ownership rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning, all of our EV drivers knew each other, we had enough infrastructure, and everyone was happy. That didn’t last for long,” said Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer at software company SAP and the owner of a Nissan Leaf.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don’t maintain a 2-to-1 ratio, you are dead,\u201d said Pat Romano, CEO of ChargePoint<\/a>, operator of the world\u2019s largest network of EV charging stations\u201415,000 across the United States, Europe, and Australia. \u201cIf you are going to do this, you have to be willing to continue to scale it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

But adding more charging stations isn\u2019t easy. Businesses often lease the chargers to avoid investing in permanent infrastructure. The chargers\u2019 high price doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

With supply unable to keep up with demand, companies are developing procedures to offset the potential for \u201ccharge rage\u201d among employees. For instance, at Infoblox, a network-control company with a staff of 260 at its headquarters in Santa Clara, there are just six charging stations, but twenty-seven employees\u201410 percent of the company\u2014who drive EVs.<\/p>\n

Infoblox has addressed the problem by asking staff to sign up for charging times. No one can book for longer than a two-hour window, with a shared online calendar displaying the schedule, and no one is privy to special rights. Management and staff alike follow the same process.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Rule No. 1 is: No one touches anyone else\u2019s car without permission,\u201d explained David Gee, the company\u2019s executive vice president of marketing.<\/p>\n

When problems arise, employees are quick to email Infoblox\u2019s internal EV-user distribution list: \u201cWill the owner of the red Leaf in Bay #3 move their car now?\u201d So far there appears to be no disciplinary action in the books against those who buck the system because \u201cpublic shaming is the best motivator,\u201d said Gee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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