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That's great. I wish the government would work with the provinces to standardize and rationalize charging rates and prices. Due to laws that prohibit reselling
by martythemaniak 7y ago
That's great. I wish the government would work with the provinces to standardize and rationalize charging rates and prices.
Due to laws that prohibit reselling of electricity, getting charged by the minute is the standard, yet, how much energy you're getting in that minute varies wildly based on: whether the charger is shared, how cold it is, what car you drive, which station you pulled into etc. Figuring out how much you paid for a unit of energy is very hard and makes it almost impossible to cross-shop.
Tesla gets partly around this by having a high-speed rate (~44 cents/minute > 60kWh, 22 < 60kWh), but it still makes it very hard to pull into a supercharger and know how much your charge will cost.
At the end of the day, each charger should have a posted price of $/kWh. High-speed chargers should charge more and you should be able to know what you'll pay before you plug in somewhere.