John Stuckey
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"We" is who? Homeowners with a 240V, 200A feed? There is a big difference between the demand charge on a home vs a SC. This applies to all utilities. Try getting a 2" water line run to your house and see what the demand charge would be. And it doesn't matter a bit if you don't use one drop more water; much higher price just for having the capacity is fixed.I don't agree with the way Tesla is increasing the cost for ALL of the superchargers. I agree that they should not be free because people abuse of them however it doesn't make any sense to increase the cost of supercharging like they did in Quebec.
We pay electricity here at 8cents kWh (day or night) and tesla is basically charging 15$ for a 60 kWh charge... especially in winter when the charging is slower and usually unavoidable. I usually charge at 60kWh / hour in winter time. So the cost of electricity for Telsa is 4,80$ for the electricity and yet they charge 15$. Our public charging stations here are, for the most part, much slower but a lot less expensive then supercharging. Tesla could easily charge the equivalent of 8$ for a 60 kWh charge and make 200% profit. They could easily adjust depending on the electricity prices to have something a little more reasonable.
With these changes most new telsa owners will go on the public charging network which will make all other EV owners mad.
Tesla would be smart to publish the rates SCs pay and put a bunch of this chatter to bed.