UkrainianKozak
Well-known member
On the cost of the charging, It is great if you use it as emergency, but now it makes it cost-prohibitive for long commuters that might rely on it, especially if what's needed is just 5 min boost to get home safely.
It's totally unreasonable to pay $5 every day for 5min quick charge.
Another rattle for me is parking fees at some QC stations. For example in Seattle in SLU QC you have to pay $3 for 2 hour parking, which you will never fully use while QCing plus now you'll have to pay $5 to charge on top of that...
So basically if I need 5 min charge boost, which is I think a very good use of quick charger, you actually really use it as a gas station... but now it cost you $8 for 5 min pit-stop... That I think is unreasonable.
So if Blink wants to use QC network as a network for EV emergency charge, I think the price might be even more - if you really needed you'll pay anway, but if they want to main-streaming QC, the pricing structure as it is proposed is not really make sesnse IMHO...
On top of that per-session fee would encurage 100% charging when people really don't need it, but 100% charging is much slower than charging to 80%, so in the future the QC availability will suffer from this cost structure.
It's totally unreasonable to pay $5 every day for 5min quick charge.
Another rattle for me is parking fees at some QC stations. For example in Seattle in SLU QC you have to pay $3 for 2 hour parking, which you will never fully use while QCing plus now you'll have to pay $5 to charge on top of that...
So basically if I need 5 min charge boost, which is I think a very good use of quick charger, you actually really use it as a gas station... but now it cost you $8 for 5 min pit-stop... That I think is unreasonable.
So if Blink wants to use QC network as a network for EV emergency charge, I think the price might be even more - if you really needed you'll pay anway, but if they want to main-streaming QC, the pricing structure as it is proposed is not really make sesnse IMHO...
On top of that per-session fee would encurage 100% charging when people really don't need it, but 100% charging is much slower than charging to 80%, so in the future the QC availability will suffer from this cost structure.