Charging an Electric Vehicle In Public Can Cost Triple What Fueling Up a “Gas-Guzzler” Does

This is actually the first sentence.after to he Head line.

Public EV charging can be ridiculously expensive. Here is what we paid to add 34 miles to a new 2022 model year EV at an EVgo charger..

What your headline should read is
'if you don't know what your doing, do some research or you'll pay too much to charge your EV."
As you stated, you didn't think about the cost .
I pay a tenth what you did at a level three charger.
For only 34 miles you could have used a level 2 charger for free.
Use the plug share app..

EVGO is transitioning from per min to per KHw
30 states now approve charging by KHw after bipartisan legislation said it should be that way.
Just give the industry time. EV will eventually be cheaper than ICE to ‘fill up’

Looks like someone is sticking it to the wrong man. I would like to see the details of the charging session because the lack of details makes me suspect that the charging session depicted may be out of the norm for price, and may have incured some type of penalty for idle time or something like that. Seeing all the details will allow us to see the process and results through the lens of truth. If you don't supply complete details about the session reported then you may be practicing deception.

I only charge my leaf at home. I have plenty of range for all my trips within a 65 mile radius. A long trip I use my hybrid Volt. No reason to force a square peg into a round circle. Solid state batteries are not here yet. Thus EV is an predominantly still more for local use.

I recently drove over 1800 miles for a road trip in my Chevy Bolt EV. I'm not going to say it was convenient to stop for 45 to 60 minutes to charge. But it was CHEAP. I spent less than $100, total, on charging. That's about 18 miles per dollar spent. An equivalent of 54 mi/gal at $3/gal, which were around most of the gas prices I saw. Not many cars can get that kind of mileage.

Like I said, it wasn't convenient, and I would NEVER do that with my family while traveling. But driving alone, it wasn't bad and it WAS inexpensive.

You could have driven 5 miles an hour slower on that leg of trip and it would have cost nothing as you would not need to charge that top twenty percent.
Or at the rate you were charging you could have used a stage two which are free all over the place.

I live in New York City. First of all there are very few electric car charging ports. The few that there are charge so mich money-4 times what gas costs. Why? Why is electricity so expensive for cars? How will electric cars become desirable when they are so expensive to charge?

That's odd... I fully charged my Prius Prime today on a Blink charger at Ikea today while I shopped. It cost me $1.25 to go from 0 to 30 miles of range.
That's about 1/3 the cost of a gallon of gas where I live.
But, I do normally charge at home on my level 2 charger and it doesn't cost that much.
I would suggest this service provider is charging a serious markup.

This is complete BS. You did the one thing that is most expensive and pass it off as a normal thing. How much f'ing money are you getting from big oil? (Post edited for potty talk)

Anyone who knows anything about fast charging will recognize in a second that receiving 9.510 kWh of charge in 29 min 23 seconds is not fast charging. At a minimum I would expect to see 35- kWh of charge. Most EVGO and Electrify America level 3 chargers are rated between 50 and 250 kW. I don’t recall any reference to the time of day or season, but I would suspect that this EV owner had to pay a “critical peak energy charge” passed on by EVGO due to high demand due to high temperatures in the summer.

The gas price paid is a lie. Also, the entire comparison is garbage because the foundation of the comparison is biased.

A nearly 800hp v8 needs premium gasoline otherwise it will knock. Newer cars retard timing to reduce knock but that lowers efficiency. So either they used low grade gas at lower efficiency (reducing MPG) and lied about the resulting MPG, or they're lying about the price per gallon since $2.9x was "regular" (not premium) pricing at the time. Today, regular in Bedford, NH is $3.0x per gallon. (More than in the article, further throwing a wrench into the gears of their argument.) And, of course, they didn't test with the national average cost of gas. On the West coast, gas is almost DOUBLE the cost.

So if the Bolt and Dodge we're both tested on the same route and the Dodge averaged 24MPG, then I'm calling BS or the whole test was highway miles. The Bolt is already one of the least efficient EVs, which is a fair compassion with virtually any Dodge. However, the Bolt does worst on the highway while gas cars all do better on the highway. Based on the MPG numbers boasted in this article, I can only assume that the entire test was done on highways. That's likely also why they used a Bolt, rather than any other EV, like the most popular ones (Tesla, Leaf, Hyundai, etc).

No matter what, this article is an IQ-lowering bag of trash information .

This kind of moron click bait drives me nuts.

Truth, I live in an apartment, so no home charging. Witch is Way cheaper. I charge at the end of the block at a public charger. I pay about $6 - $7 for @ 100+ miles range. In my old car that would get me @35 mi. On a good month I can save enough to meet@ 1/2 my car payment.

And NO. The earth is not Flat.

I drive an audi A8L TDI that has almost 500 ft lbs of torque 305hp, and gets 37mpg highway. My cost is less than $0.10 per mile, and I can get around 800 miles a from a tank. I can go from NYC to Chicago without stopping.

X cents per mile + add at least $22,000 for end of life battery pack replacement. About an additional 7.5 cents per mile.

Wish I could find gas at $2.90. The lowest price around here is $4.09 at Costco. Average is $4.55. I seen gas the other day over $5 per gal.

For every person that mentions they charge at home, work or a Tesla supercharger, what does that have to do with the topic of the article?

The point of the story is that in many places if you take your non-Tesla on the road you might have no choice but to pay ridiculously high prices for public charging. This is a fact.

Where is this? Here in Long Beach CA I can get 43
KWH for $15 dollars in evgo, so the rate shown in this article is not representative of the majority of super chargers.