But why? There should be no reason for this. Every PUC is required to give notice of price changes. Even if their pricing structure isn't automated (which would be stupid) they would have plenty of time to get the pricing adjusted manually. If the charger can display the correct price, the app should have access to the same info, no ????
Along those lines, somehow my electric utility company knows my ev charger usage st home though i did not apply for TOU or registered my Chargepoint with them. I assume somehow Chargepoint feeds the util co a signal of some sort that identifies the electricity usage.
I must have missed something about the app not providing accurate pricing. It does say to reference the station for the most accurate pricing information, but in my mind, that's most likely because you could initiate a charging session after using the app to navigate there, and the pricing changed dynamically before you arrive due to whatever factors there are.
Telsa wants to sell as many cars as they can build. EA doesn't have that incentive. In fact you could say that EA will only do what is required to keep their system running and nothing more. I would do the same. If I had a 5,000 vending machines scattered around, would it be efficient moneywise to have a three nines in reliability? No way.
" The app is informative about pricing, but because prices may change over time, you should always check the price at the charger."
I had actually gone two years with no issues at EA stations. Then on my trip over the weekend I ran into a site in Cabazon CA, where all the EA stations were working but had throttled power. There were also two 50kw EVGO chargers right next to the 4 EA ones, and both were out of order. I charged at 35kw for just long enough to get me 40 miles down the road to Indio, where I knew the chargers were good, had used them on the way out.
I think part of Tesla Secret Sauce is they control the vehicles as well as the chargers and the software on both sides. Will be interesting to see if anything changes when other players start charging at Super Chargers. We already saw some issues on the handful of magic dock stations.
I agree and assume they will be fairly accurate but with TOU pricing the price you see may be off.
This is true. I think it might be a good idea for folks to post the rate in their Plugshare check-in's as well. Would be good to track the various locations pricing.
I’ll probably keep it for a little while just to see how much I use it. The 25% discount means that one charge over $28 pays for the month. At the current $.48 rate in CA that means one 58 kW charge pays for the month.
Wow, SCE TOU overnight rates are still very high.So far in 6 months That $24 membership fee saved me $255.71. Even at $7 ($42 in 6 months) I would still be way ahead in the game.
Will be curious to see the new rates though and what hours they will have for TOU. I know with SCE in SoCal my TOU is 4pm to 9pm and rate go crazy high. If I need to charge during peak time even with Solar it is cheaper for me to go to a DCFC around the corner and let my solar feed the grid for the NEM credits.
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Yes SCE is crazy high but just means my solar pays for itself faster, I’ve calculated my ROI for solar and 1 Tesla Power-wall at 53 months, almost 2 years in and still tacking to that number.
