> Add some, say, Chargepoint stations, set the price and off you go. Ugh. Please don't. You pay more for the charger and the ongoing maintenance fees than yo

> Add some, say, Chargepoint stations, set the price and off you go. Ugh. Please don't. You pay more for the charger and the ongoing maintenance fees than you'd pay for electricity in an awful lot of cases with a "free, dumb charger." Chargepoint makes really nice stuff. Their hardware side is great, and the units are very well tested for long term operation. It's just their entire business model that I hate. Their model is, "We should be able to intermediate in, and get a cut of, all EV charging, everywhere except home. And ideally home if it's an apartment complex." And this is simply not needed in the bulk of cases. Apartments should either just wire a 240V EVSE circuit to apartments for charging ("Parking spot 101 goes to apartment 101, parking spot 102 goes to apartment 102, etc"), or just have some "EV charging" spots that are $20/mo or $40/mo or something. It's cheaper to do this than to try and monitor every kWh that goes into the EVs, and if the net is close enough, call it good. I say this having tried the cost recovery thing on a charger, and discovering that, with infrequent use, the $5/mo management fees to then recover costs were more expensive than literally just paying for the power. If a 240V/16A EVSE runs flat out for 30 days, at our local $0.10/kWh costs, that's $275/mo in power... but nobody will actually do that.