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

To add some context... Evgo charges for charging time not amount charge gained, so this 2.5 times the cost is charging a slow charging car at high state of charge when it charges the slowest. For example if it were say an Ioniq 5 charging from 10-80% it would cost about $6 and add around 200 miles.

Wow, what an absolute ripoff... EVGo should be ashamed of charging those kind of prices. I'd heard of people paying $0.40ish per KWh but never over a dollar! I pay $0.09 per KWh at home and between $0.24 and $0.31 per KWh on the Tesla network. Ends up costing me half of what I would pay in gas for my old Mazda that got 30mpg even at the more expensive superchargers.

This article uses fake data. $10 adds around 300 miles of range at most electric chargers, not 34.

Well there you have it. The duration of your charge was half an hour and the juice cost 10 bucks. So at maximum utilization that charger would only bring in 15 or 18 bucks an hour. When you factor the capital cost, cost of electricity, maintenance, insurance, etc the charging business is a loser from the get-go. Compare that to a gas pump that can squirt out a hundred bucks worth in 5 minutes

This is kind of misleading. The bolt is by far the worst fast charging electric car on the market. Evey other car would have added at minimum 125-150 miles in 30 minutes.

I charge my older BMW i3 at an evgo L3 station for $0.27 a minute. If I am at 10% I can get to 90% in about 40 minutes or $10.80. This is 70 miles of range or about half of what you paid. This is still expensive, but as you note, using public chargers is rare, for road trips, etc. Charging at home is about 25% the price of gas.

$10.15 for 34 miles? That’s absurd and hard to imagine. I use to live in a condo so I had to charge my Tesla exclusively at public chargers and would average roughly $7 for 200 miles in range.

Why did it take half an hour to provide 9 kwh? How full was the battery when you started charging? Does EVGo charge by the minute or by the kwh? Or a combination of both?

This isn't a widespread issue. I just did an 1400 mile trip in my EV and spent no more than $50 DC charging. Anyone who owns an EV and takes it long trips knows that A MAJORITY of DCFCs have switched from per minute charging to per kW charging. This means regardless of whether your car chargers are 50kW or 150kW, you'll spend the same 25-41¢/kW on average. There are still a couple of states lagging behind with EVgo (especially), but at this point Electrify America has completed almost all conversions and ChargePoint DCFCs already vast majority charge on a per kW basis, alleviating this issue. Also, the issue of time based charging is only an issue if you: have a faulty charger not delivering energy, are charging over 80% at a DCFC, or are driving a Bolt which limits DCFC at 50kW max.

While it's true that charging at public chargers isn't the cheapest. I believe that public chargers need to standardize on KW with an idling fee or a time limit.
What your article doesn't seem to mention is that the charger you used charged you per minute and not per KW. You did mention that you charged it up to 100% and it's not about etiquette, it's about eefficiency. You plugged in when your car would recharge at the slowest possible rate.
These two factors are why you got 34 miles for $10.15 instead of 100 miles for the same price.

My 2 cents…I see a lot of EV charging costs criticisms.
If we’re being honest, EV folks aren’t weighing weather to buy a Dodge Challenger or a Chevy Bolt, that arse-backwards non-logic. EVs don’t use fossil fuel, that’s the selling point, period. Become a member at EVgo or ChargePoint to gain access to reduced costs and avoid the higher fee stations-which are as often as not, charging more because that City board decided to bilk consumers. It’s not gas vs recharging, it’s about our 1 small blue planet and choosing to keep her healthy.

How did you added 34 miles on a DC fast charger after 29 mins & 23 seconds? Not sure how fast that charger is or you might have .....

Nice clickbait headline. But a better one would be:

Idiot Who Doesn't Know How To Look At Prices Complains When He Gets Screwed With High Prices

Public chargers that bill by the minute instead of the kilowatt hour or a very bad deal for consumers. This is because chargers will charge at different rates depending on demand and different cars charge at different rates. This makes it almost impossible to predict what the cost Will be per kilowatt hour. We would not stand for this at a gas station. Public chargers should bill by the kilowatt hour which is more transparent and easier for the consumer to know what they’re paying per kilowatt hour of electricity.

Your mistake was only adding a few miles. Most public chargers charge a flat per-use fee on top of a per-kWh cost (usually about double the rate you'd get at home during off-peak hours). 34 miles is roughly 8.5 kWh (avg) so, doing some ga'zintas, it looks like you were charged about $8 flat fee and about $0.25/kWh. Those are both high end numbers, but your per mile cost would have averages lower if you charges from empty to full rather than "topping off". To be fair, I think the public chargers need to drop the per use fee. You don't see has stations charging you a flat fee just to start pumping.

I just charged up my Tesla Model S with 205 miles for $10. All the other companies like Blink, ChargePoint, EVgo are just ripping drivers off! It's shameful of them. BUY TESLA!!

This is why I drive a gas car. I don't want to waste time sitting at a charger, nor do I want to pay the fees. Here the non Tesla chargers charge .50 cent per kWh which is the same price as premium fuel, plus I need to waste 30 min at a charger, no thanks. Time is money and I'd be losing it sitting around, I'll stick with gas and get 450 miles or range in 3 min.

The problem was you weren't using the vehicle for what it's intends for, making the comparison between the Bolt and Dodge inaccurate. Fast charging at the top of the pack takes significantly longer (80%-100%) vs charging at the lower end. You would have added significantly more "miles" at the low end of the pack for the same cost. Miles is not a smart way to measure energy- it's like going to a gas station where you cant pump your own gas and telling the attendant to "give you 100mi of gas".

This article is flat out dishonest. The Bolt charges at over 50kW when below 50% like any sane person would be to use a charger where you pay by the minute ($.35/min) for the charger in question, but based on the bill the average charge rate was under 20kW which means the car was likely over 80% for a good part of the time. No sane person does this and it's the core of the article. It was nothing up a set up to make a dishonest argument.