The prices for charging your EV are all over the place, from free to “more than gasoline” and they include billing by the minute, by the kilowatt-hour or both. Senior contributor Brad Templeton explains why it's confusing and why many EV owners don't care.
. How fast a charging station delivers the energy. Your station at home might deliver 1.4 to 7kW. A public fast station does 50kW to 350kW.
Almost every customer wants to pay by the kWh, because once the session is done, that’s what you’ve received – a battery full of new kWh. Just like you think with gasoline, your car will get 3-4 miles/kWh. You care a lot though, before the session is done about how fast the charging is and where it is.
People also get angry when a station charges by the minute and it seems the station is slow. They feel they are getting cheated by the station. The charge rate is supposedly determined by the car, but only up to the max rate the station wants to allow, so it’s a joint decision.the price when you charge at home. People stop caring about the price which makes the market even stranger. Some stations are even free. These are commonly slow charging stations, but it’s even seen in fast stations.
With such odd customer attitudes, it’s not surprising there’s been a lot of pricing experimentation. For some time, chargers in Oregon charged a flat fee. If you were empty and needed a full charge you got a great deal, but it was a horrible deal if you just wanted a short top-up or wanted to use the 10-50% strategy. This pricing has vanished, but per-session fees are still common.
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