In the electric car-loving Bay Area, workplace charging stations have become a common corporate perk — and a source of tension.
Install too few in a company’s parking lot, and employees with electric vehicles end up jockeying for open plugs.
Those who arrive too late in the morning to find an available charging station must beg their co-workers to unplug later in the day so they can top off their own batteries for the drive home. Or they can commit the ultimate EV faux pas — unplugging a colleague’s car.