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Charged my car yesterday while grocery shopping, this is how much it costs (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
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In Chicago area for anyone wondering using the Walmart charging network. This is about ~13% capacity, wasn't really low started charging at about 70%.

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[–] 18 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

DCFC is much more expensive than home rates. Approaching petrol cost per km. I don’t use them, but I think that would be an aggressively low rate around here.

The worst ones are the ones that bill by time, so if you have a slow car, it costs more.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    The worst ones are the ones that bill by time, so if you have a slow car, it costs more.

    Chargers based on time are usually due to laws about only power companies being able to charge for electricity usage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Interesting. TIL. Makes sense that those laws exist.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Wait, why should an electric company be the only one allowed to sell electricity?

    If I’m paying for it from them it’s mine. Can I put it in cellphone chargers and rent them out?

    Why can’t I sell car charging to my buddy that comes and parks in my driveway and insists on paying for the pixies he uses?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I don’t know but would guess the official answer is something like:

    secondary market arbitrage potential exacerbates existing problems such as power theft / meter fraud, bootleg electrical work, unregistered grid ties, etc.

    But tbh my very first thought was landlord abuse

    Edit: and FWIW what you’re describing sounds more like a service, like offering facilities for rent, than an illegal secondary energy market

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I wonder if this applies to something like an off grid solar car charging setup.

    I know the panel and weather requirements are hard to work around, maybe once salt or solid state batteries bring storage costs down we could have modular containers that could be dropped all through the desert or at gas stations and parking lots.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Off-grid part surely bumps the question into fruit stand territory (not a lawyer)

    But decentralized energy storage is a foregone conclusion once you accept that the most abundant source of energy isn’t diurnal

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