MichaelLAX said:
vrpratt said:
This comes to about 85 cents a mile!
On the one hand $6.77 was less than the cost of our lunch. On the other, it would be interesting to know whether anyone here has been charged more than 85 cents a mile by any network, due to someone else. (You can always beat that figure yourself just by shutting off EVgo after say 4 minutes but that would be cheating.)
Are you suggesting that 85 cents a mile is a bargain?
Certainly no bargain had EVgo charged me that for 10,000 miles, and stiffed me for the $8,500 after I complained. But for 8 miles and canceling the charge immediately (no questions asked) when I brought it to their attention, I'm not complaining.
But maybe a better question than mine would have been, what's the most anyone's had to pay EVgo per mile
after a legitimate complaint? Say your Bolt got 80 miles for $22 (two half-hour sessions), that comes to $0.275 a mile. That's a reasonably representative EVgo charge, and they certainly won't cancel
that if challenged. But with gas at say $3 a gallon, someone with a 30 mpg ICE is paying a mere $0.10 a mile, and even less for Prius owners. That makes EVgo a rip-off compared to gasoline.
What about ChargePoint? On my 2683 miles to Canada and back, not counting the ChargePoint free overnight Level 2 ("destination") charger I used at Mt Shasta (twice, once in each direction), CCS ChargePoint averaged around $0.06 mile.
If your goal is to survive in the DCFC marketplace, EVgo/NRG may have the right idea. But if you want to encourage more drivers to switch from ICEs to BEVs in order to save the planet, then ChargePoint may have the better long-term strategy. EVgo/NRG may be too focused on their quarterly bottom line, a common problem for modern capitalism.
But then again depreciation of these new cars dwarfs those numbers. The newer the (EV) car the safer the planet. Are you willing to pay the depreciation on a new(er) car in order to save the planet more effectively?
The late George Dantzig would have liked that linear programming optimization problem.