Cool but I wish we didn’t need apps. Just let me tap and pay like gas.
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I pay 0.45/kWh at home.
Electric monopolies were a mistake.
Is a solar and battery installation possible in your situation? At that price per kWh the payoff should be pretty quick.
I assume 0.45 $/kWh? Where do you live? This seams really expensive for the USA. In Germany (where everyone is complaining about high consumer electricity prices) the price is 0.24 to 0.30 €/kWh. I always thought those were high.
Btw electricity prices in Germany have not gone up, because of the Iran war. This is because a majority is produced by wind and solar. Natural gas, oil, diesel & gasoline have gone up significantly in price.
Here is good overview (in German, but probably understandable): https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-strompreis-gaspreis-erneuerbare-energien-ausbau
And yes, even though I don't "like" Walmart, this means I'm going to be shopping there more often while I charge my car because convenience.
Sincere question: why would you need to charge at a walmart or other retail charger — do you by any chance live in an apartment complex? Not a slight, just trying to figure out if apartment people are finally adopting electric vehicles. Chargers at places like these could help with that kind of adoption.
Yes, apartment, street parking in Chicago. I've had my 2023 Bolt for almost 2 years now.
Typically on Electrify America chargers, it’s one car per charger regardless of how many cables it has. Guessing it’s the same here.
Yeah that'd be my guess too. It's one charger that has two different cables, rather than two separate chargers that can operate independently.
getting the app, creating an account
They don't support Plug and Charge?
can it be done kiosk like without an app?
0.47 a kwh!? Where do you live where that is in any way good prices?! No wonder you're so willing to shop at Walmart if you think nearly 50c a kwh is anything but a deep fucking of you by Walmart...
That'd be considered cheap in California.
My last (only) road trip had prices ranging from $0.3_ to $0.68
That's pretty standard for DC fast charging in the US. I have the luxury of being able to charge at home overnight for a fraction of that, but if you're road tripping or you don't have the living situation to charge at home then you're pretty much stuck with DC fast charging at much higher rates.
In the UK, fast chargers are regularly over £0.80 a kWh. It means that journeys beyond your range actually cost more than gas (even when gas is really expensive too).
and yet regulators are willing to give datacenters a discount?? Sounds like it's beyond time for some change of stewardship around the world...