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

Your article uses lies to deceive the uninformed. Yes you are at a fast charging station, with one chademo charger, the fast one, and one slow charger, the one you are plugged into, as the fast charge is an upgrade for the crap bolt. Now the fast charger would charge the car at 50kw were as the slow charges at around 7kw. You show a doctored photo that shows a 30 min time at the 35 cents a min charge which would be that $10 but that would have put you close to full charge, instead however you used the slow charger which is $1.50 an hour. Go get 30 miles in your other car for $1.50!!

As many others pointed out, you used a per minute DC fast charger on a slow to charge car. You should have used a level 2 charger instead of a DC fast charger, you wouldn't have lost much speed at all and you would have paid a reasonable price.

The comparison doesn't really make a whole lot of sense because nobody with a whole lot of sense would use a DC fast charger with that vehicle to top off that way.

What is the bisiness case for providing EV chargepoints? If they charged $10/hr, making say $7 on 20kwhrs, that compare with gas fill usage at maybe 8 users / hr making say $1 per tank ie $8/hr. Ive made up these numbers, perhaps someone on here has some real data?

Yeah, it's a rip off. Again, companies trying to make more money. There is no way the electricity cost them that much. I get a few extra cents to pay for the space the charger resides at, but this is ridiculous!

What is also interesting, gas should be much much more expensive than it is. But due to subsidized fuel, yep through our taxes, the prices stay a good $200 or so a gallon lower than they should cost.

Is this an attempt to turn people off to go electric?

I charge at home and have used free chargers. So far I have not yet needed to pay for charging at a public charger. I do have to admit, I have a Tacoma for road trips. Hopefully the network of chargers improves because this is the bottleneck.

I had a Volt for 6 years. Over that time, I never found a functional "pay" (like ChargePoint) charger, but if I could have, charging would have taken 4 hours and cost about $12.00. For that I would have added an equivalent of just over a gallon of gas used in the range extender engine. So, obviously not with the $$ and time. Charleston SC is not an EV friendly city.

The biggest problem with these cars and chargers is the time needed to refuel. At this point in time where people will shoot you because your not doing at least 10mph over the limit, there certainly not going to wait 20-30 minutes to refuel. And lord help you if you have to wait to even get to a refueling port. I'll stick with my hybrid that I dont need to plug in. I'm very happy with the 42 mpg I get with it.

I love how many of the commenters here simply reinforce the perception that EV owners are crusading snobs, or possibly 4 year olds that want to stamp there feet because they apperantly do not have the ability to understand something before proving their ignorance, and as soon as they perceive an attack on a conviction they hold so dear, they can't help themselves but to defend their holy crusade.
The article headline was not click bait, the author did not have an agenda, the author was not setting up the Bolt to fail the comparison with the Ice vehicle.
The author was very specific in setting up the senario and the reasons for charging when and where he did and for paying the stated amount. If you actually read the entire article as a whole and stop picking and choosing which parts you dont like, it is clear the article was showing that EV owners can and do get gouged and that they must plan carefully and be prepared to pay up when traveling away from home especially in areas with low to zero EV infrastructure..
Getting on here and attacking the author for stating what it CAN COST charging at a public station to over 80% and paying exorbitant fees, and extolling us on the virtues of YOUR vehicle and YOUR electric rates, clearly shows you didn't actually read the article, or worse, could not understand it.

I still like my 2006 VW Jetta TDI. Last time I filled it up 43 mpg on winter diesel for city driving. 168000 miles on it.

Nuts and bolts, but You omitted the subsidized government of energy corporations for 100 yearz Bubba .U must be a Petri PetroLobbyist in disguise

There are several things wrong in this article, first is his math does not add up, second a hemi of 700 HP is not going to get the milage he is claiming, 3rd I have found that charging station is like gas stations some low price some high, he intentionally went to a high prices one 4th he is comparing a low end low mile EV to that of a better model this story gives the appearance of a dislike of EV's based on bad information and lack of knowledge

In California we are paying more than 4$ per gallon for gas and my electric car is getting 4.5 miles per kilowatts so it is much cheaper for me drive my electric car than my toyota that gets 25 miles per gallon

Really depends where you are. Fast charging is 11$ an hour here in Quebec. Juste made a 600km trip for 6$ on a fast charger

I drive a Tesla MX, and it costs me less than $10 to charge to ~80% at a Tesla Supercharger, which gives me about 250 miles of range.
It's the wild west for EV charging. Companies can charge whatever amount they want and EV drivers will pay. Charging stations just aren't as prevalent as gas stations.

As for me, EV gives me anxiety. I wouldn't take my road trip without my Honda Odyssey (3400 miles in two weeks) this year.

I have a 475 hp SRT. No way in hell you got 24mpg combined in that Dodge. Pure highway, in eco mode...sure.

I am glad so many EV driver commented on the on obviously misrepresented data in this "article". There is not 1x way to compare icev costs vs ev costs. As a family of 5 with 2x evs and 1x icev in CA i can tell you I compare the 2 in monthly cost of "fueling" up. Our icev monthly fuel up costs can range from 90 - 150. Our ev fueling monthly costs for 2x evs ranges from 118 - 160. I should also mention we live in apt homes and rely on EVGO specifically as our main source of ev fuel. IMHO EVGO is the most affordable and versatile fast charging provider in my SoCal area. Even when factoring in EVGO charges per min vs per kwh. There is no shortage of other options. Charge point, Blink, Electrify America. The only one that beats EVGO in terms of price are the free chargers (Volta) that should be found in any state with a serious ev push. My .02 worth you decide how valuable it is to you.

That's way I have a Tesla. Changing at home in Florida it would cost me $10 to go 300 miles. On a trip charging at a Supercharger it would be $14. No more gas cars for me. Also maintenance costs are a quarter of a gas car and even less after a 100,000 miles.

Terrible comparison. One of the worst ranges on an electric vehicle used to figure the charging prices with the most expensive charger. Then, compared to a "gas guzzler" to babe it apart more expensive.
Incredibly misleading article.
The actual facts:
It is mostly free to charge in public, with assume places charging a few dollars for the convenience. Most vehicles gain approx. 200 miles for a quick charge to 80%, since average ranges are well over 250 miles for most modern electric vehicles.
Finally, all other maintenance costs are almost negligible in comparison.
But yeah, y'all stick with the "gas guzzlers" because, you know, reasons.

At home is around .11 kWh so about 400 miles for $10 or about 100mpg @ $2.50 a gallon. Electrify America charger we usually use on road trips is about 62 mpg equivalent. Don't remember exact rates since usually only focused on topping off while getting food, but it is about $5 for 125 miles.

Superchargers, plain and simple. Faster, cheaper and way more available. There are cars, EVs and Teslas. I wouldn't buy an EV until the charging network matched Tesla.

I took an overnight trip the morning after forgetting to plug in my Model 3... No problem, just route to a supercharger.

I love waiting half an hour to refuel my car ..... Can't wait to line up to do that.

Very bad sensationalist journalism. I assume sponsored by the oil industry. No one acts like this and pays this much for so little in the real world. Shameful article.