Todd, they need to fix their crap, and not be a crap company. Raising their rates will hardly get them anywhere closer to becoming reliable.
There is no "widely used" government database. Pundits say things like this, and to me it calls into question their agenda or at least their grasp of the situation.
Well, first of all, neither of us know the exact reason why they are crappy at maintaining their infrastructure. It could be that they hardly make enough money to stay afloat or it could be because of management. My guess, and it's just a guess, is that it's probably because they don't have the finances based on last years estimated earnings.
Maybe search is giving me the wrong data, but it says Tesla charges $0.20 to $0.50 per kWh. That's on par with $0.48 for EA. Maybe operating and capital costs are so much lower for Tesla and that's how they make profit from their charge network.
In a previous post I gave an example. I'll attach screen shots to prove what I previously said. This is for a Tesla charge station, next to a EA station. Since the Tesla station has a magic dock it can be used by the MachE. Therefore, both stations can be used by a Tesla or a MachE. Additionally, Tesla charges an idle fee whereas EA doesn't.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. I will repeat that the DOE called me annually from 2010-2014 to ask about the chargers (Level 2) we installed at our office (total of 8). They put this into a database. Where and how to access the database I have never really cared to find out since there are better tools available including Plugshare and ABRP. Not a pundit only commenting that there is a database and it probably is nowhere as user friendly as the apps. I believe it is actually an excel spreadsheet if I remember correctly.
What Alaska did, and unfortunately there was a lot of wasted spending, was to create a permanent fund. A portion of the oil pumped out of the ground is royalty oil and of course there are taxes. A portion of that funds the state, a portion goes into the permanent fund (now at around $80 billion) and a portion is returned to the residents annually. The one year you quoted was an anomaly as our legislature had been holding back payments for a few tight years when oil prices dropped. Plus the governor included an inflation incentive which had nothing to do with the fund but was paid out with it. Normal annual payment is around $1,000. Personally I wish the State would keep it all and build up the fund so that when the oil runs out the fund will be large enough to fully fund the government and we will not have to start paying state taxes. So that was a lot for one year but I would rather have a source of natural gas so my heating bill was not $800 a month during the winter!
We look for EVGo more and more now as we find their DCFC are more reliable. EVGo costs more than EA but at least we know we can plug in and get a fast charge without issue.
Tesla owners would rather die than deal with the finger pointing and children asking "what's wrong with them?" they would get from the strangers at the Tesla Superchargers...
Germany should be passing legislature any day now making it mandatory for all gas stations to have DCFC. While I am 100000000x opposed to our government mandating that private sector do anything like this, the idea is out there and already happening. There are some places in the USA that have done this already on their own as well. I've only seen one personally, about 90 min from me is run by TA Travel Center (Shell).
Precisely. Automakers are going to continue make and sell more and more BEVs. This is pretty much a foregone conclusion. People will need to charge these vehicles. Tesla knows how to build and install reliable DCFC stations quickly, efficiently and affordably. With universal NACS access people will invariably choose Tesla chargers first. Other charging companies have two choices: get much better at what they do or quit and let Tesla have a monopoly.
Ding! Ding! Ding! This is at the root of most dislike of taxes and government funded programs. We simply don't trust the money will be used properly, efficiently and effectively. Mostly because history shows it rarely is. That's because politicians, not economists and industry experts, are in charge of the money. But this is the system we have so there ya go. Here's hoping it all gets sorted proper.
Pilot travel station on the Ohio Michigan has installed two dcfc stations. Indiana and Ohio Turnpike rest areas have dcfc. Pennsylvania has granted millions to service stations along I 80 for dcfc. Makes sense opposed to a corner of a Walmart parking lot .
