State of PWP EV DC Fast Charging July 14, 2025
This is an email sent to the general manager David Reyes and the assistant general manager of PWP who is responsible for EV charging. I encourage people to call and email the top management:
Varoojan Avedian vavedian@cityofpasadena.net
Assistant General Manager
Pasadena Water & Power – Power Delivery Division
1055 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 350, Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 744-7851
David M. Reyes davidreyes@cityofpasadena.net
General Manager, Department of Water and Power
150 S. Los Robles Ave. #200, Pasadena, CA 91101
626-744-7598
Susana Castro scastro@cityofPasadena.net
Senior Executive Assistant
626-744-7029
I encourage all EV owners who have been frustrated by the state of EV charging in Pasadena to engage with the people in charge. To call and leave messages and report their experiences. It’s the only way we will see change.
I want to share the state of charging with PWP, in a nutshell it is worse than a few months ago.
Here is why:
1. Robinson Park. 3 of 5 work sometimes.
2. Victory Park – none work
3. Glenarm Arroyo – 1 of 6 sometimes work. I know 4 are off and have been off for many months.
4. Shoppers Lane- 6 of 8 appear to work but there appears to be issues with 2 of the six that work.
5. IMarengo – while it is good to see new chargers here, people don’t pay to park to charge or want to deal with validation. Why the city doubles down on this is beyond me. While the new chargers have NACS the PowerFlex app does not indicate this. Why not take some of these new chargers and install at Glenarm or Robinson Park?
6. Del Mar – the new dashboard shows 3 DCFC but only 2 are available to the public from what I can find. Please confirm.
The periodic status update dashboard should include connector types and charge kW rates.
At Shoppers Lane i have witnessed vehicles fully charged sitting there, people unplugging other peoples cars, and a prime example of why 2 hours is not the best practice or sustainable. With drivers frustrated and many vehicles waiting to charge upwards of eight waiting Sunday evening.
I strongly urge that sites be changed to 30min like Del Mar.
Also implementing idle fees and since we are fees where are we with raising the rates to be inline with Tesla and EVCS and others?
This is obviously not sustainable.
With all these issues, what is the plan?
