Additionally, the email states that the company will be reinstating idle fees. In EV-charging nomenclature, “idle fees” refer to the fees incurred when your car sits at a charging point for too long after it has already completed charging.
Those fees currently vary by state, but expect somewhere around $0.40 per minute (after a 10-minute grace period), according to Electrify America. For comparison, Tesla’s supercharger network charges a $0.50 fee per minute when your car is done charging. However, when the charging station has all spots occupied, that price jumps to $1.00 per minute.
That’s certainly not ideal, but Tesla’s Supercharger system is one of the more popular options over Electrify America, and has even attracted the attention of several major automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Ford who are opting to equip future cars with Supercharger-compatible hardware.
Electrify America has recently adopted Tesla’s charging hardware as well. Upcoming price changes to the Electrify America charging infrastructure that make it harder for the average driver and customer to plan and budget for charging their EV certainly isn’t doing the company any favors.
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