Pretty sure with petrol, they can't change the price while you are filling. Though according to most ICE drivers they only spend 11 seconds for the entire filling process, lol.
Shirley they would just wait until the end of the charge session then change it.
I think as long as it's advertised it should be ok. Say they have off peak at 15c between 0900 and 1600 and peak from 1600 at 45c.
Good point, and if the punter doesn’t like it they can always go down the road to the jolt. Unless they are in a town which only has the EVIE
Or a discount! Depending when you charge.
Trial pricing at Hornsby is 53c from 5pm-9am, or a 5c discount on the 'old 'pricing , or 64c from 9am-5pm, a 6c peak increase over the 'old' pricing.
Would be a real bummer if the driver arrives at an Evie charger hoping to charge and problems with initiating a charge causing several pre-auths + by the time the charging actually works, the clock ticks over into a more expensive period
It doesn't matter when you start charging under Evie's variable pricing trial - you are charged the applicable rate at the time you charge.
Thats my point. The driver might have arrived in time for a charge at the cheaper rate, but shenanigans and difficulties with commencing a charge pushes the charging session to start at the higher pricer period.
But it doesn't matter when you start - if you plugged in and started the session at 0855 and unplugged at 0925, you'll pay 53c from 0855 to 0900, and then 64c from 0900 to 0925.
Of course, but the point is that but for issues with initiating a charge, a session would have been cheaper and multiple pre-auths might also have occured
People will probably be scared off using EVIE due to the preauth and confusion over what they are paying.
I just use the Evie card. No preauths . But yes there are anecdotal reports of difficulties of initiating charge sessions leading to frustration which is then compounded by >1 preauth. People still incorrectly think preauth causes money to be actually deducted from their CC accounts.
Ohh well I have an Evie card too so there you go I wouldn’t have attracted the preauth.
yes, or the tesla app. However I don't know what method is better to stop a charging session. Im inclined to stop if via the Evie side rather than the Tesla side. Ive found that when I'm Jolting and i stop the charging using the Tesla app, that sometimes this causes an "error" on the Jolt side.
No, you still have to link the EVID RFID to your EVIE account inside the app. They send out random cards but get you to do the work of associating the card to account - which is actually more secure if you think about it.
My local metro petroleum has a "happy hour" period where the price of Dinojuiceᵀᴹ is discounted by 5c/L
Yep, like the Irish pub I worked at as a youngster. It takes 2 minutes to pour a Guinness properly. If someone orders a Guinness 1 minute before the end of happy hour, you have to pour half the Guinness, leave it to settle, and then pour the other half. But when you pour the other half, it's not happy hour any more, so you have to charge the customer for half the Guinness at happy hour price, and the other half at full price. That's when the fights usually started.
