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Tesla proposes installing 39 free car-charging stations in Elgin
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A request to install 39 electric car-charging stations on city-owned lots to be used for free by electric vehicle owners has won the endorsement of the Elgin Sustainability Commission.
Kapital Electric, of Bensenville, presented the proposal to the commission in which stations would be placed in five downtown parking lots and at the Eastside Recreation Center, Highlands of Elgin Golf Course and the Bowes Creek Country Club.
Car company Tesla would foot the $109,629 installation cost with the proviso that of the 39 stations, 22 would be available only to Tesla owners.
Commission members recommended the Elgin City Council approve Kapital’s plan, said Molly Center, city communications specialist and liaison to the commission.
“However, they also motioned to discuss in more detail at their June 12 meeting the option to purchase monitoring technology,” Center said. “The technology costs roughly $1,500 per site, and would come out of the commission’s budget. So this would likely go to council following that determination, at the June 27 committee of the whole meeting.”
Once the stations are installed, they would become city property, she said. They would be free to use and automatically shut off after a car is fully charged.
“They do not have any payment technology,” Center said. “The electricity would be drawn from city-owned electrical boxes, thus absorbed in the city’s regular utility bills,” she said.
Elgin currently has one dual charging station provided by ChargePoint located in the Centre parking deck. That station is free for users, and has more technology than those being offered by Tesla, Center said.
“The ChargePoint station in the Centre deck allows you to monitor usage, and users can also reserve the stall when open for up to 15 minutes,” she said.
In the last year, plug-in drivers used 9,483 kilowatt hours of electricity from the charging stations. At a rate at 5.28 cents per kilowatt hour, the cost to the city was about $500 for a year, Center said.
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The Elgin City Council will review a proposal from the Tesla car company in which Kapital Electric would install free car-charging stations in city parking lots similar to those already installed by Kapital in the parking lot of the Oak Brook Public Library.
The Elgin City Council will review a proposal from the Tesla car company in which Kapital Electric would install free car-charging stations in city parking lots similar to those already installed by Kapital in the parking lot of the Oak Brook Public Library. (Kapital Electric)
Sustainability Commission member Tia Aagesen said she was in favor of the idea. “(The new charging stations) would be for the public good and be of benefit to the environment.”
Electric vehicles are becoming a larger portion of the auto market, and companies such as UPS have added some electric vehicles to their fleets, Aagesen said.
Kapital Electric has already installed 22 charging stations for Fox Valley Park District in Aurora, and is in the process of installing 18 for the Glen Ellyn Park District and 22 for the village of Oak Brook, Vice President Don Butler said. They also have a contract to install in 12 in Naperville, replacing some stations and adding new ones, he said.
Mayor Dave Kaptain and City Councilman Terry Gavin said they have some qualms about the proposal.
Among their concerns is whether the city should be providing free space for Tesla and free electricity to Tesla owners, given that the least expensive model the company sells is $35,000 and many are two or three times that amount.
Gavin said, “What’s actually going to be the cost for Elgin to do this?”
Butler said most people with plug-in vehicles charge them at home and use charging stations to top off their batteries, usually for an hour or two.
“It typically takes around $7 of electricity to charge a Tesla from empty to full, which also takes 10 hours,” Butler said.
That said, “Tesla is not going to say you can’t charge” drivers for the electricity they use, he said. Some hotels have deals with Tesla do just that, he said.
The benefit for Elgin would be bringing people to the city who seek out free charging stations and who end up spending money in town by shopping, dining and doing other activities, Butler said.
http://newsbreaking.org/2018/05/tesla-proposes-installing-39-free-car-charging-stations-in-elgin/
All 34 Bishops In Chile Suddenly Resign Over "Absolutely Deplorable" Pedophile Priest Scandal
All 34 bishops in Chile have tendered their resignations in the wake of yet another pedophile priest scandal in which high level officials covered up the institutionalized sexual abuse of minors - even threatening officials tasked with investigating sex crimes and the destruction of evidence.
Thirty-one active bishops and three who are signed a document with their offers to resign following an emergency meeting this week with Pope Francis. Francis can accept the resignations one by one, reject them outright or delay a decision.
Calls had mounted for the resignations after details emerged of the contents of a 2,300-page Vatican report into the Chilean scandal leaked early Friday.
Francis had accused the bishops of destroying evidence of sex crimes, pressuring investigators to minimize abuse accusations and showing 'grave negligence' in protecting children from paedophile priests.
In one of the most damning documents from the Vatican on the issue, Francis said the entire Chilean church hierarchy was collectively responsible for 'grave defects' in handling cases and the resulting loss of credibility that the Catholic Church has suffered. -Daily Mail
"No one can exempt himself and place the problem on the shoulders of the others," Francis wrote in the document published by Chile's T13 television and confirmed as accurate Friday by the Vatican.
Responding to the 2,300-page report, Chilean bishops called the contents of the document "absolutely deplorable," and showed an "unacceptable abuse of power and conscience," along with sexual abuse.
The bishops asked for forgiveness from the victims, the Pope and all Catholics worldwide.
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Plot Thickens: Search Warrant for Anthony Weiner’s Laptop Unsealed
District Judge Denise Cote unsealed the search warrant for the laptop and other devices of former Congressman Anthony Weiner on Wednesday, May 16.
The laptop soon became the center of a major controversy. However, the search warrant suggests the controversy may run deeper still.
On Nov. 4, 2016, former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Erik Prince said “a very well-placed source” at the NYPD told him the NYPD found “damning criminal information” about Clinton on Weiner’s laptop and threatened to release it if FBI tried to sweep it under the rug.
The FBI indeed later obtained its own search warrant and looked at the laptop in connection with its investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified information as State Secretary.
But there was a notable difference between the FBI warrant and the NYPD one.
The one obtained by NYPD read, in part: “Depending on circumstances, a complete review of the seized [electronically stored information] may require examination of all of the seized data to evaluate its contents and determine whether the data is responsive to the warrant.”
The FBI one read, in part: “Law enforcement personnel will make reasonable efforts to restrict their search to data falling within the categories of evidence specified in the warrant.”
That would suggest the NYPD could look at everything, while the FBI investigators worded its warrant in a way that restricted them to look only at data regarding the mishandling of classified information.
Here’s what we know about how Clinton’s emails ended up on Weiner’s laptop and what repercussions their discovery meant.
Weiner shared the laptop with his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton since 2000.
Hundreds of thousands of emails were stored on the laptop, including thousands from Clinton.
“Huma Abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to [Weiner] for him,” then-FBI Director James Comey testified at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 3, 2017. “I think, to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to [Clinton].”
The existence of the emails was also confirmed in texts between senior FBI attorney Lisa Page and former head of counterintelligence at the FBI, Peter Strzok.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/search-warrant-for-anthony-weiners-laptop-unsealed_2529665.html