Author's Note: Imagine the climate change enthusiasts get their wish and all gasoline stations are replaced with unmanned and insecure charging stations.
We take the safety of gas stations for granted. We don’t think twice about our teenagers going to fill up with gas on a dark evening.
Gas stations are secure. They have employees, multiple security cameras, etc.
We have all come to rely on these safeguards for our families. Most people don’t truly appreciate the safe haven a gas station is.
But the powers that be want to eliminate them completely.
If they get their wish, what will we be left with?
Are our elected officials making sure that charging an EV will afford and guarantee the same level of security provided by gas stations?
Absolutely not. They are completely eliminating all the gas station safeguards that are a critical part of our culture and society.
I have yet to see an EV charging station, not part of a traditional gas station, with employees closeby and a full complement of security cameras.
Have you?
The answer is no.
This story details the level of danger that our governments are asking us to put up with in the future. Our teenage drivers will be sitting ducks, especially in the dark after hours.
Why is no one in government talking about this?
But this scene that plays out in the story will become very common when people have no choice but to charge their cars in remote and desolate insecure and unmanned parking lots sometimes in the middle of the night.
Remember most people will not have a home charging option. Think apartment dwellers and other renters just for a start.
Most people will have to charge away from home the same way they get gas today.
EVs are not cars or a real car replacement.
Tina Jenkins was about to head home from college in her EV.
Christmas break had just started and a few inches of snow had just fallen.
The charger at school was broken so she told her mom she was going to stop on the way home at a charging station that was right off the main highway.
It was in a building supply store parking lot. The store would be closed but the EV charger website said it was in a well lit parking lot.
Her mother was tracking her all the way on her cell phone and she saw when Tina pulled into the parking lot.
The charging station was at the furthest spot away from the exit ramp off the highway.
She called her daughter. “All right Tina get that car plugged in and call me as soon as you're out of there."
Tina told her the EV display said that she needed to stay at least 45 minutes to get a 50% charge which would get her the rest of the way home.
Her mother made sure that the location was a legitimate charging location. Her eyes were glued to her phone's mapping application making sure Tina was safely with her car.
After a half an hour passed she called Tina. But there was no answer.
Tina Jenkins mom called the police and eventually a state trooper pulled into the parking lot of the building supply store.
They found her EV, still plugged into the charger, her phone on the ground outside the driver's side door and her purse on the passenger seat.
Tina Jenkins was never found.
Predators will quickly realize that these unmanned and insecure EV charging stations are the perfect spots to perpetrate crimes, especially after the nearby businesses are all closed for the day.
