Dude owns a Nissan Leaf. Decided to plug the car into one of the school's electrical outlet.
So yeah, plugging into a building is technically stealing electricity because it has value and he's not paying for it. You could argue that you can plug a cell phone into the school's outlet and not get charged? Right. So, I think there's an assumption in the article that the electricity only cost five cents. Without knowing how many kilowatts were transferred into the car, we really can't do the math. However, I can see why they would want to put the brakes on charging up your car at school. It's not a problem now but it can be in the future when more people have all-electric cars because if you have 100 cars charging up their cars at school, the money adds up.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-power-lands-electric-car-driver-in-jail?lite
So yeah, plugging into a building is technically stealing electricity because it has value and he's not paying for it. You could argue that you can plug a cell phone into the school's outlet and not get charged? Right. So, I think there's an assumption in the article that the electricity only cost five cents. Without knowing how many kilowatts were transferred into the car, we really can't do the math. However, I can see why they would want to put the brakes on charging up your car at school. It's not a problem now but it can be in the future when more people have all-electric cars because if you have 100 cars charging up their cars at school, the money adds up.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-power-lands-electric-car-driver-in-jail?lite
I don't know how this will stick. I'm sure if his cell phone/laptop/tablet was charging, this would never have been an issue.