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[quote=Anonymous]Most chargers will charge or actually ramp up the per-hour (or portion of a hour) price if a car is plugged in but battery is fully charged. This is to get you to move so others can use it.

Plus, depending on where the charger is, many garages will have a ticket or tow policy for remaining parked at a charger that isn’t actively charging. They have a red/green light on them so garage employees can tell if a car is actually charging or not. Enforcement depends on if it’s monitored and how much demand there is for the chargers.

For example, my office garage has five EV spaces that go empty most of the day, and the security guards that manage it could care less if an EV is parked all day. I just go back down when the app alerts me the battery is full so I’m not getting the surcharge.

But another example is I was sitting in my car in a charging spot (waiting for it to finish) at a Whole Foods and watched a garage employee use a key to disconnect a Tesla then direct a tow truck to pull it out of the spot. No way of knowing if how long the Tesla had been there, but it did put a fear in me not to occupy spots in places I’m not 100% certain it will be reported/enforced. 
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