Saw something interesting the other day: A handful of folks gathered under the portico of Vancouver’s central library around an electrical outlet charging their electric bikes. That got me to thinking: nomads need electricity.<\/p>\n
Now, of course, in this day and age we already know this. But I suspect most of us who are thinking of on-the-go electrical needs are thinking of electricity for devices (you know: laptops, phones, and so on). That’s certainly an important question. But E-bikes are becoming an important part of the transportation spectrum and they can’t bring them<\/em> into coffee shops and libraries to get them charged. And, in addition, coffee shops aren’t exactly free<\/em> electricity anyway. You have to buy something to sit there.<\/p>\n So, that brings me to the puzzle of finding free or near-free, outside public electricity access for E-bikes. Is there some kind of wiki\/blog\/list where somebody is keeping track of outdoor plugs? Is it in this Yahoo Group<\/a>? It would seem to be a good idea to maintain a list somewhere. I’m not tapped into the e-bike community at all so I don’t know.<\/p>\n As an example: people are tracking power in airports<\/a> and there’s plenty of public wifi lists (here’s one<\/a>) so I suspect the e-bike community trades this info somehow.<\/p>\n