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> Charging, some placed really gouge you - I mostly charge at home (~0.115k/wh), and some local places are 3-5x that; home charging is the cheapest I've found.
by rlpb 3y ago
> Charging, some placed really gouge you - I mostly charge at home (~0.115k/wh), and some local places are 3-5x that; home charging is the cheapest I've found.
I wouldn't call it gouging. You're excluding the capex on your home charger in your comparison, but public chargers have to include that, maintenance costs as a result of public abuse, maintenance of payment infrastructure, rent for the site, and taxes. If you consider what a public charger might take in a day, it's clear that the non-marginal costs are the majority of the cost.
- antisthenes 3y ago> maintenance costs as a result of public abuse, maintenance of payment infrastructure, rent for the site, and taxes Sounds like a "not my problem" kind of thing. If this results in a 500% markup, customers should rightly be outraged. Also the kind of thing where businesses should have massive economies of scale (like getting a discount on buying 10,000 chargers at once)
- rlpb 3y ago> If this results in a 500% markup, customers should rightly be outraged. No, it just means that the economics are different than what you think and that you should adjust your expectations accordingly. For example, we can expect most electric car owners to charge at home with public chargers predominantly being placed on or near long distance routes. Public chargers elsewhere may struggle to be viable, except perhaps where home charging is impractical (eg. in areas where people don't have off-street parking).
- ukd1 3y agoGranted - but it feels like it is when some are 0.22/k/wh and some are 0.40-0.60/k/wh, and the commercial rate is 0.075/k/wh
- dns_snek 3y agoI'm sorry, but I feel compelled to interject with a friendly PSA, "k/wh" (thousand per watt-hour) isn't a real unit in this context, it's $0.22/kWh ($0.22 per thousand Watt-hours)