I shared a Spotify playlist on Facebook this morning. The song which prompted the action was by Billy Ocean and a hit about 33 years ago.
I was relaxing at Queen's Park's Rose Garden at that moment. The weather was pleasant and it was promising to breach 30°C.While I grooved on old music, my car was plugged into a free municipal charger. It is one of five, Level-2 locations in New Westminster where EV chargers were fitted into street-lighting circuits. When the city changed from old types of lighting to LEDs, excess capacity became available even during nights. BCIT colaborated using this excess to allow streetside EV charging.
When I returned to the pole after a walk around the park, I noted that another Hyundai KONA Electric was also charging. Unfortunately, it seems as though when two vehicles are in one location, the power is divided with each receiving only half the output. I still appreciated the gratis electricity which rewarded me several times over for the power used by my trip up there.