http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/electric-car-drivers-fees-charge-stations-1.4178795
FYI - City of Vancouver proposes fees at 16 existing city-owned and operated EV charging locations, starting some time summer 2017. These stations are all currently no-cost to charge (as are most of the dozens of other public stations around town on non-city property). Stated purposes of the change include encouraging turnover at the stations, encouraging charging at home, and recovering some costs, etc
Proposed fee is $2/hr at 7kW L2 stations, and $16/hr for the 50kW BC Hydro-owned station at Empire Fields. The charging fee is on top of existing meter/parking fees, if applicable. Note that charging fees won't apply to non-city operated EV chargers. They say there are ~250 public charging stations in the city, of which the city operates 75.
Details in the council report here, including usage statistics of the city chargers, and some data on costs/revenue for operating a typical L2 charger:
http://council.vancouver.ca/20170627/documents/rr1d.pdf
FYI - City of Vancouver proposes fees at 16 existing city-owned and operated EV charging locations, starting some time summer 2017. These stations are all currently no-cost to charge (as are most of the dozens of other public stations around town on non-city property). Stated purposes of the change include encouraging turnover at the stations, encouraging charging at home, and recovering some costs, etc
Proposed fee is $2/hr at 7kW L2 stations, and $16/hr for the 50kW BC Hydro-owned station at Empire Fields. The charging fee is on top of existing meter/parking fees, if applicable. Note that charging fees won't apply to non-city operated EV chargers. They say there are ~250 public charging stations in the city, of which the city operates 75.
Details in the council report here, including usage statistics of the city chargers, and some data on costs/revenue for operating a typical L2 charger:
http://council.vancouver.ca/20170627/documents/rr1d.pdf