These away from home chargers will have to be a bit pricey for obvious reasons, exceptions being when they are used to get you to park there and enjoy whatever is "inside". Power runs about 16 cents per kWhr, then you have the cost of the charger itself, and billing, and maintenance, and insurance, the minor cost of land. and then profit margin. I think Tesla had a "zero cost" model on charging as an incentive to buy their car, which was fairly smart at that time.
Let's imagine their 25 cents is "zero profit", or close to it. For folks providing these at profit, they need a markup of course. That could be 20 cents or so, just guessing, to provide a decent ROI. Maybe "Kroger" kicks in a few bucks, at least to start? I can see some "Krogers" kicking in a lot of bucks, to start, and then after a year of marketing that stops. So, it goes from "free" to use to 40 cents or more.
My neighbor was under the impression they were all free, somehow, when I mentioned they cost about as much as gas. He didn't know. We don't drive enough in a year to really matter much at all, maybe 7K miles, probably about 200 gallons, or $650 or so. That's about what my car insurance costs. So, my own max savings on gas is $650.
My wife chatted with a lady in the garage the other day because the lady had a new Tesla, and she was saying she had been spending $5,000 a MONTH on gas (for her Porsche). She may be in real estate. She loved not having to buy gas but didn't note the cost of charging. She had a Panamera before. It looked nice.
The lady felt she need to remark how she didn't like Elon at all. I'm pretty sure nearly everyone in the building is "liberal", not that I care either way.
