C’mon Folks! Be nice to fellow EV owners

[chjch]

My wife is constantly parking most of the time without charging in one of these spots with the green sign painted on the floor. But then again, it is her garage, an she did paint it herself soooooooo

That's beautiful.

 

[tga]

Let me rephrase. Is this Chargepoint station free to the public? Is this supercharger free to *all* Tesla users?

The ChargePoint app and website report the ChargePoint L2's are free, open 6am-midnight, 7 days/week. You'll need to activate the station with a Chargepoint RFID card or phone app, assuming you have a ChargePoint account, or a voice call to ChargePoint if you don't.

The Superchargers are only free if you have free Supercharging. Supercharger pricing policy is the same at all (US) stations; if you have free Supercharging, it's free at all stations. If you pay at one, you'll pay at all.

EDIT - I'm pretty sure all Superchargers have the same idle fees - I've never seen on that doesn't.

 

[chjch]

The ChargePoint app and website report the ChargePoint L2's are free, open 6am-midnight, 7 days/week. You'll need to activate the station with a Chargepoint RFID card or phone app, assuming you have a ChargePoint account, or a voice call to ChargePoint if you don't.

The Superchargers are only free if you have free Supercharging. Supercharger pricing policy is the same at all (US) stations; if you have free Supercharging, it's free at all stations. If you pay at one, you'll pay at all.

EDIT - I'm pretty sure all Superchargers have the same idle fees - I've never seen on that doesn't.

Thanks. So it makes sense that someone might charge a Tesla at Chargepoint instead of at the Supercharger if it costs them less money.

 

[kavyboy]

I've seen pictures of supercharger sites where Tesla installed level 2 charging as well. If those do not incur idle fees, then I now see why that would be useful in some places.

 

[MrMassTransit]

I've seen pictures of supercharger sites where Tesla installed level 2 charging as well. If those do not incur idle fees, then I now see why that would be useful in some places.

Not only do those not incur idle fees, they are completely free to charge from, unlike superchargers.

 

[JWardell]

I've seen pictures of supercharger sites where Tesla installed level 2 charging as well. If those do not incur idle fees, then I now see why that would be useful in some places.

I agree, the ideal situation is to have level 2 chargers, even if they are not free, next to superchargers, so you can quickly fill up most of the way but if you are shopping etc for a while (or staying overnight) you charge at the level 2 instead.
We all love free chargers but it might be best if they were instead cheap/half the supercharger price, so people still don't just use them without good reason.
Really it all depends on availability. If every space had a charger, no one would care.

 

[Lloyd]

Perhaps you should be writing to your non-tesla EV company to spend the money on infrastructure like Tesla has for their owners. Tesla owners are just as entitled to general EV charging spots as everyone else.

Or better yet, ask them to buy into Tesla's charging infrastructure.

 

[TexLaw]

That looks like locals are are not hogging up superchargers that others may desire. Or, as others said, they don't want to pay for the supercharger or worry about idle fees. It's hard to see the issue, here.

 

[JPoldo]

My wife is constantly parking most of the time without charging in one of these spots with the green sign painted on the floor. But then again, it is her garage, an she did paint it herself soooooooo

Geez, your garage is better organized than any room in my house !!

 

[Bimbels]

I have to agree I don't see anything wrong with this picture.

If we want to talk about Tesla owners being inconsiderate - lets talk about the photos I've seen repeatedly of Tesla owners using the Urban chargers in the Pru as parking spaces, instead of charging. THAT is rude.