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Very few (any?) free chargers over here now. I rarely use them unless on a long trip, but £0.89 a kwm is the norm now.
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If you have home charging, you only really ever think about charging when you are on a trip.
I just plug in when I get home and every morning, I have a full "tank" which gets me through the next day's commute (3 hours + parked all day with sentry mode and cabin overheat protection on).
We have 3 EVs (my wife and I), with one L2 charger and one L1 charger. My wife and I both share the L2 for our daily drivers, and our 3rd EV sits in the garage on a L1 charger when not in use.
My wife gets home before me, so she plugs in when she gets home. By the time I get home, she is fully charged to 50% (I cap hers at 50%), so I park and move the cable over to my DD and go inside while it charges overnight back up to 70%. The next morning we both are good. No going to a gas station, we don't even look at the charge level, we never even hit 20% (which the vehicle will alert you to).
I just plug in when I get home and every morning, I have a full "tank" which gets me through the next day's commute (3 hours + parked all day with sentry mode and cabin overheat protection on).
We have 3 EVs (my wife and I), with one L2 charger and one L1 charger. My wife and I both share the L2 for our daily drivers, and our 3rd EV sits in the garage on a L1 charger when not in use.
My wife gets home before me, so she plugs in when she gets home. By the time I get home, she is fully charged to 50% (I cap hers at 50%), so I park and move the cable over to my DD and go inside while it charges overnight back up to 70%. The next morning we both are good. No going to a gas station, we don't even look at the charge level, we never even hit 20% (which the vehicle will alert you to).
My local grocery store for YEARS had free L2 charging. It would stop after 2 hours. It eventually moved to now being a fee for charging. I've seen quite a few of this move from free to a fee for charging.
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macrumors Ivy Bridge
When I switched to an EV a few years back there were a few free ones. But I’ve not seen any in years. Not with the rising electricity prices.
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macrumors G5
OBX Brewing station turns the chargers off until you come in and ask to have them turned on. They used to be on all the time but found non-patrons abusing that. Wasserhund brewing does the same these days I believe. Those are the few places I have charged that are not at home, lol.
I think a lot of destination (mainly hotels) do this. You have to be a guest at their facility for them to turn it on. They also know who is charging, so if you ghost your own vehicle once charging is complete, they know who to reach out to.