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Colorado May Fine ICE Cars Found Parked At EV Charge Stations

A bill has passed in the Colorado state legislature that would allow gas or diesel vehicles found parked at EV charge stations to be ticketed.

House Bill 1298, which was introduced to the Colorado General Assembly on April 1st, 2019, seeks to address the problem of availability of EV charge stations in the state. It would allow any vehicle parked at an EV charge station that is not “actively” charging to receive a ticket of $150 with a $32 surcharge.

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The wording here is important, as it means that not only ICE vehicles can be ticketed. Any EV or plug-in hybrid vehicle that is not actively charging its battery can also be ticketed. This includes EVs and hybrids whose batteries have already been charged to full, although there is an exception if the charging station is at a hotel or airport, or if it’s between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.

The bill passed with a vote of 41 ‘yes’ to 24 ‘no’ on April 18th and will now be introduced to the state senate for further evaluation.

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Laws like this will likely become more commonplace, with EV market share set to increase in coming years. It does seem somewhat hard to enforce, however, with the law leaving it up to the parking officer to determine if an EV’s battery has been charged to full or not. This should help prevent ICE owners from purposefully parking at charge stalls to inconvenience EV owners, though – a trend that is allegedly known as ICEing.

You can read the bill in its entirety at this link, via the Colorado General Assembly.

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  1. And I was like Baby Baby Baby oooo, don’t park your ICE where EVs gooooo

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  2. A no brainer. Really need to put an end to these childish games. Can have real world consequences.

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  3. That is great news in my opinion. Even though I don’t drive an electric now, I did have one a few years ago and finding a place to charge was REALLY nasty. Between people parking ICE vehicles in the way or the chargers just not operating, it was enough to make me go back to gas. I loved my Spark Electric, but won’t be going back till the infrastructure is better and hopefully more cities/states adopt laws like this one.

    Good job Colorado! I’m just surprised California was first here (or did they already do it??).

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  4. What Colorado needs to do is have a plague with the parking location ID with instructions for the EV owner to call the Colorado Highway Patrol which would immediately tow the vehicle that is illegally parked as this would mean the individual would need to pay an illegal parking ticket, tow and storage fee to get their vehicle back which could total $300-500.00; this is what some do when someone parks in a space reserved for handicapped drivers.. you send a message so no one dares to illegally park.

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    1. ‘Placard’ … but I agree. Car needs to be removed.

      Cast a plague on ICE vehicles that deliberately park to obstruct charging stations.

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  5. Free charging stations will be going away very soon and you’ll be charged for charging your EV

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    1. Charging fees already exist and have since their introduction. Only Tesla had free charging and they just dropped their free charging for Tesla vehicles or will soon.

      A friend charges his Bolt for a 235 mile trip home for $4.35. A sum he gladly pays.

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      1. Is the Bolt using electricity from a coal fired powerplant? If he is, that means his Bolt is powered by coal. It means that the 40 percent of the powerplants that use coal in the USA, are creating more pollution, not less.

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  6. OK, Colorado and how many guns are you going to send to force ICE to pay the tickets? ICE will just arrest the cop and maybe send him to an all expense paid weekend at GITMO…..LOL

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