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

The only thing this article managed to point out is that the method of charging for time at a charging station is criminal and it should be based on energy onboarded to the EV the same way volume is used for ICE vehicles.

All the other geriatrics arguing that EVs are pointless are just showing they were C- students who barely got through highschool and never learned basic tenants of critical reading. Lol y'all are embarrassing to the human species.

The automobile landscape is changing, find a way to stay relevant but also still appreciate the classic ICE cars and trucks that are fun to drive.

I found out the hard way that EVGO fast chargers are almost triple what Electrify America charges. Also many places put in ChargePoint which are not fast chargers...takes about 5 hours to get 80%. The infrastructure is not there for me to travel great distances which really is too bad. I rent so no home chargers are available.

I think EVGO has a significant flat fee to start the charger. (Assuming their chargers are working-a big if...)

Try to plan out your route and look at your options. (I like Electrify America and Charge Point). Fast chargers with fees are always more expensive than the other options..

This is the most disingenuous BS I've seen in a while.

EV chargers pricing is per minute. The charging slows down once you're past 80% battery. So of course it's gonna be "more expensive" once you're past 80%. Of course the article doesn't show how you can get +170 miles in 1 hour or less, as long as you're charging below 80%.

It's ok to be biased, but don't lie about it.

Just a junk POS article with an author who has a clear hatred for EVs. Cherry picked data for the worst possible scenario for EV charging and then used the highway mileage (downhill?) for the ICE. You know your product is superior when the haters have to play with the numbers in attempt to prove their point.

In California, gas is almost $5/gal... $4.87 when I filled up a couple weeks ago. That really changes the ratio right there, and gets them alot closer to being the same. Unfortunately, I think that the public charging system is in its infancy and is not as streamlined and efficient about lowering costs compared to the gasoline infrastructure that we have been using for over a century. Given time, I think the ratios will shift, especially if gas prices continue to rise so drastically. Also, as batteries become more advanced, or the need to charge away from home will drop, changing the public charging stations into something akin to emergency top-ups or extreme long distance necessities only.

11 people in the survey said “I’m never in DC…”
You would think they’re too stupid to afford an electric car.
Go figure. They probably all vote too.

I drive a 2020 Kia Niro EV in NH and during the summer consistently get 295-300 miles range. In the winter with battery conditioner on i can go down to 200 miles range but normally average 240. I use Electrify America fast charger about once a month to add 210 miles of range for $6 to my car. About 3 cents per mile. I simply cannot fathom any ICE car coming close to that number. I went from $600 a month to $175 a month and still drive the same miles. Would never go back. I do not have a discounted subscription service to the charger or with Electrify America. This is just a registered account with no monthly fee at all.

Elon Musk sold a snake oil, his Tesla just need $8.88 to fill, after he hidden the 68 hours Level 1 charge at 128V Charger at home. This is the true figure of EV Charging Costs. So, EV for Global Warming is just a hype and deception. In actual, 60% of Electricity in Grid is from Fossil Fuel and all the charging & discharging, transmission, leakage losses and the 3 times the cost of even Gas Gusslering Car price, EV is not environment friendly at all. The maximum Environment friendly car is the Prius kind of HYBRID Cars. Anything above is just pure disaster for environment and disaster to your pocket too.

3 strikes and your out.
1. Chevy bolt/bolt?
2. EVGo?
3. Get a life!

It hasn't become feasible to have an electric car unless you own a home and get a level 2 charger installed.

We have a Bolt and charge at home almost exclusively. We have solar panels on the house that supplies our electricity needs completely, so we don't ever pay for charging the car. That way, if we do go on a trip and have to pay more for charging it really doesn't matter because overall we have paid a lot less.

Hopefully this changes soon. Apartments and condos should have their own charging stations available and just charge the renter or owner normal electricity fees.

Why these EV chargers while on the go charge so much is beyond me. I think part of the problem is that petrol companies like BP and others own many of the charging companies now and they are price gouging.

Whether there intentions are to deter people from buying electric or they are just trying to capitalize on the fact people don't have many charging options I don't know, but it's pretty lame of them to do so if you ask me.

No way in hell the 797hp Hellcat Redeye gets even remotely close to 24 MPG combined. In fact it's EPA rated at an unholy 15. And it devours premium gas. I don't know what kind of demonic black magic the author conjured to get 24.

Also you're damned lucky for cheap gas. Here in WA it's 3.99 just for regular.

The testing is completely falsified. They put Regular gas in the Hellcat. The Hellcat requires by the factory premium only, which is over $4.00 most places. Therefore the test is false.

This is a seriously skewed, BS article. I want the 5 minutes required to read this drivel back.

This is an egregious "sabotage the economics" attempt to make reality stand on its head.
At higher states of charge, you AVOID DC fast charging. You don't drive out of your way to find them! That's like taking a prius on a quest to fill it up with race gas, after you've filled up the back of the car with 800 lbs of bricks to drive up mountain roads... for a fuel economy article.

EVgo's website tells you not to do what you engineered here. You could charge at some random L2 charger wherever you make the math work out. 3-4KW in the same half hour would cost a buck.

Things to consider, the charging station requires an initial investment by the company for the hardware. Then there is rent for the location and last the cost of the electricity. Also maintenance for the equipment Nobody in this world is going to invest in something without a potential return. They are providing a service and supply and demand control prices. Things will eventually level out as soon as electric cars become mainstream. In the meantime, its the cost of adoptimg new technology for a "greener tomorrow"

That price was crazy…I use EVGo on occasion but pay nowhere near that price, I do have a home charger, here in California everything is expensive, so I pay .30 cents per Kwh…but nowhere near the $ 4.60 a gallon for regular gas…most the time I use an L2 charger in town (2 miles from my home) where the town highly subsidizes…$03 cents per Kwh, last night I paid $1.38 for 150 miles.
The benefits highly out way the negatives.

The key word that this entire article is built upon is "CAN" It only costs me $16 to do a full recharge at a Tesla Supercharger. Unless you're filling up your gas guzzler for $5, this is moot journalism at best. I'm guessing the next article will talk about how people who go outside CAN be hit by falling meteorites?

This is completely inaccurate.

There is a one time fee applied for charging and then it charges by time or energy used.

The math doesn't work like this at all.

Please do your research before listening to uninformed articles like this one.