CmdrThor
Active Member
So, just a little perspective from the dense urban East Coast:
The standard rate for charging at parking garages in New York City is *$0.49/kWh*. The only one I have ever seen that's lower (with the exception of a very small number of stalls at municipal garages in the outere boroughs that are usually broken) is $35 flat rate -- which is cheaper only if you bring your Tesla in pretty much dead flat empty.
Tesla salespeople regularly put forth nearby Superchargers as the solution to this problem when they realize the prospective customer lives in Manhattan or Brooklyn. "Oh, most of my other customers just go to Paramus to get their groceries and stop at the supercharger on the way" etc. I don't know how it is in California but that is the reality here. It makes all the disgust and vitriol aimed at people using the SCs for local charging seem pretty disgusting to me. There isn't any charging *at all* within a 40 block radius of where I live. How exactly am I supposed to charge at night? I guess I'm a big jerk for using the SC exactly how the Tesla staff have told me to -- and exactly how I hear them tell other customers every time I'm in the store or service center.
The whole world is not California, shocking as it may seem. Sigh.
Just because for profit networks like Chargepoint and Blink charge $0.49 / kWh doesn't mean Tesla will. Tesla clearly states the charge will be less than the cost of gas. $0.49 / kWh equates to a nearly $4 gallon of gas depending on your efficiency assumptions. I think Tesla will still bake some of the cost of the Supercharger network into the price of the car and therefore charge a little less for charging.