Brad Campbell

UVA associate professor in CS/ECE/LinkLab. Mostly tweet about electric mobility, electrification, and local transportation issues.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@VirginiaABC How come you don't suggest walking in these posts?

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@henrygrabar fodder for your sequel

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@RoryStolzenberg The first city council meeting of every year should start with a ceremony where the city announces how much they are paying to the Mark Brown Parking Fund that year. Our own Bobby Bonilla day.

[Rory Stolzenberg @RoryStolzenberg]

Meanwhile, the city cancelled two multimodal transportation projects this week and returned over $35 million in state funding to VDOT.

Why? Because there's no local money available to supplement those funds to cover cost increases.

Didn't hear about that? Odd. Pic unrelated.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@mtgillikin $3.25M/year?? Why is this city so obsessed with spending an absurd amount of money on parking. This is after they tried to build another garage and did purchase the lot on Jefferson. It was forced now, sure, but maybe stop all other parking spending.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@UVAPolice This is from today, for example.

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@UVAPolice Just wait until you learn where people park cars.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

This is much better! But it still seems like Enel X should have done this first with a longer time horizon.

[Zak ⚡️ @zak_ev]

I'm incredibly proud of our work at @ChargeLabHQ to help commercial @enelxwayna customers salvage their chargers.

By migrating to ChargeLab, site hosts can continue billing EV drivers, monitoring their JuiceBox Pro chargers, and managing on-site energy usage. The team has worked hard to make the migration path simple, safe, and reliable.

There is still time to migrate your chargers before the October 11 deadline. Please reach out to our team to sign a ChargeLab service agreement and get started: https://t.co/g4XuCHbdW4

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

We're now in the 4th quarter of 2024 and @CvilleCityHall has made zero progress on re-striping bike lanes on Main St.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

I hope the Belmont Bridge bike lane inspires @CvilleCityHall to continue to build protected bike lanes rather than call it job well done for 2024. Frankly, progress on "near-term" projects has been incredibly slow.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

What is wrong with the much simpler and more direct: we will pay you $300 per year (or whatever) to not have a parking permit. Surely that is still cheaper than $110M to build two parking garages.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

Oh. If you have a parking permit you are not eligible for this. They conveniently left that off the website.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

My other confusion is why require entering a commute mode in the website everyday? That makes sense if you drive some days and bike others. But without a permit, who is driving that often?

They are OK charging for a parking permit even if you don't drive every day.

[Charlottesville City @CvilleCityHall]

Meet us at @IXArtPark TOMORROW, 5:30 to 8PM to celebrate Charlottesville Transit and Sustainability with the talented @Jaewar&@VibeRiot, eco activities, community awards & more! 🎶🌿 Plus, enter @c3climate‘s raffle to win an e-bike 🚴: https://t.co/DbR0ZRcsGL

See you there!

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@kylecordes @enelxwayna @brandenflasch @itskyleconner We can hope!

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

Not a great look for the EV industry. Enel X USA @enelxwayna is shutting down, apparently abandoning all commercial customers. No mention of even trying to find someone else to take over the cloud backend. https://t.co/H6Dm0sZI73 @brandenflasch @itskyleconner

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@ZenCapitalist @enelxwayna @brandenflasch @itskyleconner Sounds like the home ones will just keep working, but without any app support. So depending on your use case you might be fine.

I have a JuiceBox as well and while I'll miss having the option to collect the data I should still be able to charge.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@Eric_L_Roe @enelxwayna @brandenflasch @itskyleconner Oh good point about the scheduled charging! I always had it in my head that charging should be scheduled by the car and not the EVSE, without really knowing why that made sense to me, but maybe this is why.

[Brad Campbell @bradjc5]

@Dadalorian13 @Ford Are they going to provide membership pricing with BlueOval, or are you still stuck paying the rack rate through BlueOval and with plug-and-charge?