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Old 08-23-2020, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by RARO1 View Post
That was one of my biggest worries before I bought one, it has become a non issue on road trips, I have never had to wait, in fact they are rarely at 50% capacity, once at 50% occupancy you get charged a per minute idling fee after a grace period of 5 min If you are occupying a stall and completed with charging. This ensures people don’t just walk off and use the charger as a parking spot.

Superchargers are really only for road trips or if you want a very fast charge.

Charging at home will obviously be much cheaper and the main place to charge if you own an electric car, I pay about $7 for a full 300 mile charge at home, you would need a gas car that does 85mpg to beat that...
Thanks for info. If traveling say 725 miles to see kids for example that means two stops for fueling. I like to keep moving when traveling a long distance so would not have patience to wait while charging. Would be better while staying here during pandemic and charging at home.