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krakenx@lemmy.world 1 year agoSlow charge is probably fine for a lot of folks. If you have a 240 mile battery range, travel 30 miles in a day and charge 80 miles overnight, you are at full charge from 0 in about 5 days.
No plug at all though means you don’t charge at all, and commercial fast charging isn’t that much cheaper than gas.
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I could be wrong as I have no experience charging an electric vehicle, but my understanding was that it was far cheaper to charge an electric car battery than it is to fill a tank of gas. Talking like $3.50 vs. $60 (both rough estimates, the exact numbers themselves aren’t the point, and we can look them up if needed) for full charge vs. full tank.
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Oh yep, not the same person here but price varies widely.
In my apartment complex, we have Blink network EV chargers at $0.03/kWh which is a crazy price. The complex next door’s Blink chargers charges $0.50ish/kWh (both of those are Level 2) and our apartment rates (for the hypothetical out-the-window Level 1 charging) is somewhere $0.14-0.18/kWh.
DC fast charging for trips will likely will charge closer to that $0.50/kWh mark depending on the location and will be a problem for those who don’t have lower-cost charging at home.
That’s a big range for “home” (but still commercial) charging and depending on the efficiency of the vehicle, the cost per mile will vary.