Some 3rd Party Chargers are Insanely Expensive

[Wooloomooloo]

I don't think it's expensive relative to gas cars. I can plan to stop between a supercharger and a DC Chademo fast charge station. It still turns out to be cheaper.

I guess the point is, it depends. You can certainly end up paying more than with gas, if you’re really careless.

 

[SpiceWare]

As has been mentioned, SuperChargers were originally envisioned to make road trips possible. In-city SuperCharger locations are incoming including Brooklyn which has a target to open this summer (though wouldn't surprise me if it goes live later in the year).

 

[cwerdna]

(thread resurrection)
I recall participating in a thread ages about about insanely priced charging at a hotel in So Cal... but I think this one from https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/fast-charging-at-2-30-kwh-plus-10-50-session.51738/ (you need to be a member here to see it) takes the cake.

He wrote:
"

• $2.30 / kWh
• $10.50 / session
• $2.40 / min occupancy fee (starting 5 minutes after charging finishes)"

It's at 1026 N McEwan St in Clare, Michigan. Here are screenshots I took. WTF!?!?!

 

[israndy]

That's what is allowed when you can get subsidized charger installs that cost the owner around nothing after tax breaks. They can put whatever BS they want on their charger because they wanna make a profit. Perhaps you could run the chargers over with your car to let them know what you think of the setup

https://www.plugshare.com/location/365585

 

[RayK]

https://www.plugshare.com/location/365585

At first, $0.20/kWh, plus $0.05/min parking fee from ChargePoint sounds pretty good. With my CHAdeMO adapter, an hour's worth of charging would be around 37kWh and run $13. Overall cost then is close to $0.36/kWh. With a CCS adapter, I would think that the cost / kWH will be a bit lower.

Curious.... Supercharger map shows this location as still being off-line (Open Q3 2023) but the photo of the Rivian mating with the ChargePoint is dated Nov. 2022. Plugshare has check-ins at the Superchargers going back to Oct. 2022. Maybe somebody is sleeping at the map at Tesla???

edit: Just went out to my car and checked the map. Redding (Sundial Bridge) shows up as open and $0.46/kWh. Double checked tesla.com/findus and it's not there; just a general pin location at the center of Redding showing the target opening date.

edit2: After some poking around here, I found this:

Supercharger - Redding, CA (LIVE 11 Oct 2022, 8 V3 stalls)

I charged at the destroyed unit the week the Supercharger opened, wonder if it's back up yet.

teslamotorsclub.com

Known problem since at least Feb. 2023.

 

[israndy]

Yeah, it's confusing, those two chargers (Super and ChargePoint) right next to each other, charging such different prices.