Charging an Electric Vehicle In Public Can Cost Triple What Fueling Up a “Gas-Guzzler” Does

I charged for 2 hours at a Chargepoint and added about 20 miles and the display said $1.63 but when I got my credit card bill I see a $10 charge. What's up with that. Does anybody know why Chargepoint does that?

No doubt that we EV drivers pay far more on the road for equivalent energy than petrol users, but it doesn't really matter much because electric motors are far more efficient. It evens out at the end, especially when noting that most of the time we get are juice from home were it's cheaper.

This is one of the reasons Tesla is leading in sales. Super charging does not cost that much. 5 to 7 dollars for 80 percent charge. 50 to 70 dollars or more to fill-up a f150 or Taurus. EV go may charge a lot but supercharger do not. There may be other level 3 charging that is free. Report on that

Our family has owned two Tesla’s for the past five years. To all the people using EV cars, the idea of CHARGING BY THE MINUTE REALLY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. EV’s charge at different rates. Some charge quickly to 80% and other take twice as long. Why would a charging station charge by the minute when we are buying energy in the form of Kilowatt. It should not matter how long it take to secure that Kilowatt. The charging station should charge by how much energy you take onboard.

Think about it, does your electric company charge you for power at home by the minute,, NO! It would not make sense and would not represent your actual energy usage. Do we buy gas by the minute NO! We buy gas by the gallon and the gallon represents a measure of energy that we can see as miles per gallon.

Has no one else thought about this?? Many states mandate EV charging by the minute, that’s highway robbery.

I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq electric. I live on the East Coast in Maryland about 20 mi south of DC and after owning the car for about 6 months I have to say it's been really good. I read all these stories online about how expensive EV 's are to charge but so far I've had no trouble finding free charging stations ready available all over my area. The electric company I get my power from in my home only cost $0.07 a kilowatt hour so it would cost me about $2.70 to charge my car from 0% to 100. I do charge it from home but I would say it is probably a 50-50 mix between public charging stations and home charging. All the public stations I use are free .The majority are level II so those stations do take a bit longer to get decent range. But I have found several free fast charging stations near me. If I'm running low on battery I typically stop at a public station as I currently only have 120 volt level I charging available for me at home but if I'm going to be in for the night and I have at least 40% battery level 1 charging works fine by the time I leave the next day I have plenty of range. I have taken several 100 mile one-way trips into Virginia to see family and friends and have had no issues finding free public charging stations somewhere on the route. So it is shocking to me when people talk about how expensive these cars are to charge I can legitimately run this car off of free power from public charging stations or charge it at home for a very affordable price. I am about to install a level II charger in my garage so that will make charging that much faster and allow me the option of almost charging strictly at home. But if you download several apps on your phone such as plug share, EVgo or charge point you can find plenty of free stations to charge your vehicle. I charged my car one time at a Tesla Super station where I had to pay for charging time it was rather expensive for 50 minutes of charging it ran me about $21 so yes that would have been more expensive than a gas equivalent for the 160 mi of range I got but now owning the car and being plugged in lpun intended to what's available out there with free charging public stations, I no longer pay to charge my car outside of my home. I am going to take a 300 mile road trip this week and using the apps I've found many free charging stations directly along my route that I will stop to charge my battery. I really do think you have to find out what type of charging is available to you how many free stations are in your area and where you'll be driving the car to be sure that it will work for you and the type of driving and mileage you do. But I got to say so far I don't regret switching from gas to all electric it's been great and the savings is better than I imagined. I don't know about everyone's area but a helpful tip I have found is almost any brand car dealership that sells EVs has free charging most hospitals that have parking garages also have charging stations, malls and newer condo and townhouse communities have public charging stations I do think the network still has a lot of room to grow but the area I live in is pretty rural and I have nine charging stations in my county so they are out there. So I find it hard to believe these large metropolitan areas such as Boston New York and other places are so expensive to charge one of these vehicles. But I can only speak for my experience. So if anyone is looking to take the leap to an electric car do your research before you buy one and if you have the charging stations and the company you get your electric from is affordable I say do it and don't look back. Also I do think Teslas are wonderful cars but they are expensive now that they EV market is heating up there is a lot more great affordable EV alternatives Tesla might be the king with range and electric car performance but if you're looking at it from a saving standpoint I feel like the less expensive models are great alternatives to Teslas.

It's not like DC fast chargers are the only option. They are actually more rare than any other kind. I never use pay chargers anyways, because I charge up my car at work for free, that gives me 250+ miles per charge. I never need to charge at home. (If I do charge at home, I use the portable 110v charger that comes with every EV so I didn't spend a couple thousand or more to add a charger to my house.) I've had my Bolt since the end of June. I never had to go to a charger where I had to pay. I also have only had to fill up my SUV once. (My wife uses it to drop the kids off and pick them up from school, which is about 1.5 miles from our house, and they were homeschooling last year, and didn't go to school all summer.) However that 1 fill up cost me more than what I have spent using the Bolt every day for months. Gas is around $5/gallon here in the bay area. When I filled up my SUV, it was over $60 for 1 time. When I was driving my Accord, it was costing over $120 a week to fillup and go to work 5 days a week.

Face it, EV cars can be much more cost effective. No, they aren't for everyone. Especially those who say they like to take long trips across the country. But if you have a daily commute of 120mi. I would say it's a good cost saver. All you have to do is know your range, (Like you do with gas cars, so you don't get stuck on the freeway)

I pay about $10 Canadian for 300 miles.
Not sure why you picked the most expensive place to charge, and paying per minute after 80% charge is your own fault.

Click bait?

This is actually the first sentence.after to he Head line.

Public EV charging can be ridiculously expensive. Here is what we paid to add 34 miles to a new 2022 model year EV at an EVgo charger..

What your headline should read is
'if you don't know what your doing, do some research or you'll pay too much to charge your EV."
As you stated, you didn't think about the cost .
I pay a tenth what you did at a level three charger.
For only 34 miles you could have used a level 2 charger for free.
Use the plug share app..

EVGO is transitioning from per min to per KHw
30 states now approve charging by KHw after bipartisan legislation said it should be that way.
Just give the industry time. EV will eventually be cheaper than ICE to ‘fill up’

Looks like someone is sticking it to the wrong man. I would like to see the details of the charging session because the lack of details makes me suspect that the charging session depicted may be out of the norm for price, and may have incured some type of penalty for idle time or something like that. Seeing all the details will allow us to see the process and results through the lens of truth. If you don't supply complete details about the session reported then you may be practicing deception.

I only charge my leaf at home. I have plenty of range for all my trips within a 65 mile radius. A long trip I use my hybrid Volt. No reason to force a square peg into a round circle. Solid state batteries are not here yet. Thus EV is an predominantly still more for local use.

I recently drove over 1800 miles for a road trip in my Chevy Bolt EV. I'm not going to say it was convenient to stop for 45 to 60 minutes to charge. But it was CHEAP. I spent less than $100, total, on charging. That's about 18 miles per dollar spent. An equivalent of 54 mi/gal at $3/gal, which were around most of the gas prices I saw. Not many cars can get that kind of mileage.

Like I said, it wasn't convenient, and I would NEVER do that with my family while traveling. But driving alone, it wasn't bad and it WAS inexpensive.

You could have driven 5 miles an hour slower on that leg of trip and it would have cost nothing as you would not need to charge that top twenty percent.
Or at the rate you were charging you could have used a stage two which are free all over the place.

I live in New York City. First of all there are very few electric car charging ports. The few that there are charge so mich money-4 times what gas costs. Why? Why is electricity so expensive for cars? How will electric cars become desirable when they are so expensive to charge?

That's odd... I fully charged my Prius Prime today on a Blink charger at Ikea today while I shopped. It cost me $1.25 to go from 0 to 30 miles of range.
That's about 1/3 the cost of a gallon of gas where I live.
But, I do normally charge at home on my level 2 charger and it doesn't cost that much.
I would suggest this service provider is charging a serious markup.

Anyone who knows anything about fast charging will recognize in a second that receiving 9.510 kWh of charge in 29 min 23 seconds is not fast charging. At a minimum I would expect to see 35- kWh of charge. Most EVGO and Electrify America level 3 chargers are rated between 50 and 250 kW. I don’t recall any reference to the time of day or season, but I would suspect that this EV owner had to pay a “critical peak energy charge” passed on by EVGO due to high demand due to high temperatures in the summer.

The gas price paid is a lie. Also, the entire comparison is garbage because the foundation of the comparison is biased.

A nearly 800hp v8 needs premium gasoline otherwise it will knock. Newer cars retard timing to reduce knock but that lowers efficiency. So either they used low grade gas at lower efficiency (reducing MPG) and lied about the resulting MPG, or they're lying about the price per gallon since $2.9x was "regular" (not premium) pricing at the time. Today, regular in Bedford, NH is $3.0x per gallon. (More than in the article, further throwing a wrench into the gears of their argument.) And, of course, they didn't test with the national average cost of gas. On the West coast, gas is almost DOUBLE the cost.

So if the Bolt and Dodge we're both tested on the same route and the Dodge averaged 24MPG, then I'm calling BS or the whole test was highway miles. The Bolt is already one of the least efficient EVs, which is a fair compassion with virtually any Dodge. However, the Bolt does worst on the highway while gas cars all do better on the highway. Based on the MPG numbers boasted in this article, I can only assume that the entire test was done on highways. That's likely also why they used a Bolt, rather than any other EV, like the most popular ones (Tesla, Leaf, Hyundai, etc).

No matter what, this article is an IQ-lowering bag of trash information .

I drive an audi A8L TDI that has almost 500 ft lbs of torque 305hp, and gets 37mpg highway. My cost is less than $0.10 per mile, and I can get around 800 miles a from a tank. I can go from NYC to Chicago without stopping.

X cents per mile + add at least $22,000 for end of life battery pack replacement. About an additional 7.5 cents per mile.