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1. It's cheaper to charge at home, and we do have a Level 2 charger in the garage. But with a new Hyundai EV, you get unlimited free charging (albeit, 30 minute
by mikestew 3y ago
1. It's cheaper to charge at home, and we do have a Level 2 charger in the garage. But with a new Hyundai EV, you get unlimited free charging (albeit, 30 minutes at a time) through Electrify America. There's one down the road from us at the local Target. So when one of us goes to Target, we get the "free" fill-up. In fact, just this morning I was driving by from some other errand, and figured, hey, I've got fifteen minutes so I'll throw the car on the EA charger and save a few bucks. But it only takes like five or six dollars to charge the thing at home, so did I save anything even if I didn't go out of my way?
Otherwise, L3 is for road trips, especially if it's coming out of my pocket. And partly because one of the reasons we bought our second electric car is because you don't have to go out of your way to a special place just to keep the thing running.
2. I've not seen free charging at places like HD. What I have seen are Level 2 chargers at Safeway grocery stores that are subsidized by the advertising on the giant-ass (a meter tall?) screen. Advertise all you want on that screen, I'm in the store not seeing it. Other places you'll swipe a credit card or summat.
- boringg 3y agoThanks for the response -- so it sounds like there are a lot of business models right now and a couple different options for the consumers.
- mikestew 3y agoThat pretty much nails it, yeah. I expect we will see some shaking out of what works and what doesn't in the next five-ten years, but for now we get a hodgepodge of various schemes. OTOH, my wife and I been driving EV for over 12 years now (OG, pre-ordered Leaf), and though there are many more chargers, I don't know that the business models have made much progress.