Free or discounted electricity for EV and Plug-in Hybrids.

[PracticalMac]

Many corporations and merchants are offering FREE or discounted recharging of EV and Plug-in Hybrids.

The reasons are simple:
1. Load balancing of grid (with night time charging)
2. Attract customers to location (store or restaurant)
3. Government programs
4. Carbon offsets for Dino Juice (Shell does this, link below)
5. Company perks
6. Prize award
7. Referrals (Tesla does this)
8. Friends. 🙂

(not as easy to give someone a gallon of gas).

Other links to start with

Your Free Hours EV Charging Plan​

Sign up for MP2 Energy's EV Free Hours Charging Program | MP2 Energy

MP2's Electric Vehicle charging plan gives residential customers free off-peak hours, from renewable sources. Sign up in 3 simple steps.

www.mp2energy.com

GM and Shell Will Give You Free Electricity for Your Electric Car​

GM and Shell Will Give You Free Electricity for Your EV—Seriously

The offer of free charging only applies to those in Texas, and only for GM vehicles. If the offer was available to you, would it be enough to get you to make the switch?

www.autoweek.com

Free night charging (line fee apply)

Free Nights and Weekends Electricity in Texas

Free nights and weekends electricity plans in Texas get all the hype. But what's the reality behind the offer? Best free nights and weekends.

electricityplans.com

Give away elec is not expensive either. For a restaurant it would cost them $1 to gain $40 in business (what I heard a year ago, not look), pretty much free advertising.

How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Car?​

How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Car? - Kelley Blue Book

Charging a 2026 IONIQ 5 (84 kWh) at home costs approximately $14.83 at the U.S. average rate of 17.65¢/kWh. DC fast charging 10%–80% takes around 18 minutes and costs about $28. Home EV charging averages $59.66/month vs. $147/month for a 30-mpg gas car at $4.09/gallon. 90% of EV charging happens...

www.kbb.com

Let’s say you drive about 540 miles per month. For an EV, you will use 180 kWh in that time frame. Then, using the U.S. household average of 12 cents per kWh, that gets you to $21.60/month to charge an EV.

I would be need $15 / mo by that figure, IF I paid the 12c/KWh price, which I would not. Elec discount Programs will cost 1/2 that.

The True Cost of Powering an Electric Car​

The True Cost of Powering an Electric Car | Edmunds

Determining the cost of powering a plug-in vehicle isn't difficult once you understand the individual cost points. These boil down to where and when you charge and your utility company's various rates.

www.edmunds.com

What if a gallon of gasoline cost $3 at breakfast time, was free at lunch, bumped up to $8 in the afternoon, but was only $2 in the middle of the night? Welcome to the world of charging up plug-in electric vehicles.

Plenty of other resources, this was 5 min of looking.

 

[pshufd]

I like that Google office where they have carports with solar cells on the roof. They provide free charging for employees and your car is parked underneath so it doesn't get baked in the sun.

I saw a video about one guy who put a charging station at his auto repair shop for his own EV. It somehow got onto a map of public EV charging stations so people went there to charge their vehicles because he had no metering equipment on it. He didn't really mind until one person got upset with him because his car was using it for so long.

Companies offering charging stations also have to deal with people that aren't otherwise authorized to be on their property, on their property.

 

[PracticalMac]

I am surprised this did not get more feedback.

A note,
Rudy's Country Store & Bar-B-Q also has Superchargers at most locations.
There is a great article about this cooperation, but its behind a paywall 🙁

 

[Apple fanboy]

We looked into it at work when my boss bought a Tesla. But we rent and it’s a glass fronted building. So taking the power out was going to be a massive job.
Things are getting better. But there aren’t enough charging points in the U.K. for me yet.