I’m a new owner of an electric car. Speaking to my friends that own them, they made it clear that it’s always cheaper to charge at home (save for the first three years of my Porsche ownership where VW’s Electrify America picks up the tab). Fast chargers are convenient but resellers of municipal electricity are not going to be the most cost efficient option. The benefit you’re receiving for the premium charged is being absolved of the eight hours you’d have to spend (at 40A) at home.
And that is with your extremely high home rates. The national average is about 16 cents. Your base rate is higher than my peak rate. My overnight rate is under 5 cents.
Yeah, Europe is getting completely hosed on energy prices. Historically some of that is self-inflicted voluntary price increases, but I imagine that nowadays it's more about that pesky Putin guy disrupting the energy supply.
Many EVs are actually priced competitively for their specific segment. The issue is that there are 5-10 y/o used ICE cars that are obviously much cheaper, and EVs are generally short right now, so used prices are up.
The rules are extremely different state to state. Some states don't allow fast charging companies to resell their power like that, so they have to charge exclusively for the time you are using the charger, rather than the actual electricity you are using.
There's like an entire order of magnitude from the high end to the low end
