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The survey fills out some remaining questions I had for both electric car owners/lessees and those planning to one day go electric. Combined with the 3 other surveys we recently conducted (which are actually still open as well) — this one for EV owners/lessees, this one for wannabe owners/lessees, and this one about campground EV charging (for everyone) — I will very shortly write up a report on various EV matters. I will publish the full survey for free and will also publish numerous articles on specific report highlights. So, please complete this final survey for the report, and pass it on to any friends or family you know who drive an electric car or want to go electric.
I can’t imagine a business model where you could make money on the energy sale, I don’t see the margin. My car would be very hard pressed to have room for $2 worth of electricity, and with a crappy 3.3 on board, that would take 5 hours!
EV energy is so cheap I dont care about saving. I’m used to charging for free everywhere I go, yet this free energy isn’t motive enough to plan to be low on juice when I know I’ll be someplace I can charge.
Even with free charging, the stalls are never full. Raising the price probably won’t increase traffic.
If you can’t keep your infrastructure busy with “free” how do you make profit by charging people?
I just can’t imagine being willing to pay for a charge unless I was desperate. I would never invest in a business that proposed to make profit on EV charging by charging to charge. I’d never be my own customer.
I don’t see this changing.
When car range goes up certainly there will be more cars, but there will be geometrically more capacity. Opportunity charging will go from “might as well” to “meh, I’ll charge at home”.
If it was useable on a tablet I’d do it.