How To Use An EV Charging Station | EV Public Charging 101

New to electric vehicles? Today, Dave is going over all the basics on how to charge your EV at a public charging station. We'll go through how to find a charging station, what apps to download, and how to plug in for a charge. Following this guide, you'll be an EV public charging expert in no time.

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[kernelsamba]

Joining networks to use the product is junk, don't need another flipping card or app... tap/swipe to pay like every other bloody thing. argh going the wrong way with this

[jetsurfboards]

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[alozborne]

@bchydro, when are you going to implement level 3, per kWh based rate charging, now that Measurement Canada has approved you to sell EV charging services on a per kWh basis?

[alozborne]

BC Hydro DC quick charging is outrageously expensive for any owner of an older EV like my 2013 Nissan Leaf. As the battery pack ages, it no longer charges at anything close to 50 kW.

Rather than billing per unit of energy, like with gasoline powered cars, BC Hydro bills per minute. So on a cold day, a shiny new Telsa charging next to my older LEAF will charge way faster than my LEAF and receive way more energy for the same cost I pay...

During this past winter, I calculated that I paid a $1 per kWh for a DC fast charging session. To put that into perspective, that's 10x the price of residential rates!

For anyone living in a townhouse or condo, that doesn't have L1/L2 charging options, they will end up spending more for electricity when DC charging an older EV than they would for gas in a fuel efficient car!

Shame on BC Hydro for this type of predatory pricing structure! Billing per kWh of energy is the only fair system, and BC Hydro knows that. But, monopolies do whatever they want to. So don't buy into their hype about advocating for EVs, follow the $

[Benjones-kn]

first find one. then hope it works, and then pray it is a fast one. or wait and wait and wait and wait

[brucevandenbosch]

If I leave my vehicle during charging, can someone disconnect my charging connection, and use my charger?

[neipamocal]

"All Across the province" ---- Shows map of lower mainland.

[motgnay]

Good place to get rob. Imagine running out of energy in the middle of travel at night, you’re the only charging your car at that random charging station.

[AmericaFirst]

Was curious and glad I wasted my time watching that! Got to go get in my F250 Super duty Diesel now!!

[Thegoldmine]

So who's responsible if you trip over the cable which is hanging over a public footpath

[sedawk]

“Cards are the safest option” … and you currently aren’t proving those ☹️

[JCraftvfx]

30-40 min to charge a car? My gawd, no thanks. Now imagine if everyone had electric cars, expect 8-10 hours as you wait in a line of cars all waiting to charge.

[howardroussel]

If you buy into this crap, you deserve what you get.

[Mr.Reaper]

We living in Data collection world from cellphone to vehicles now charging station 🙄

[AAK]

This is the biggest crock of crap. Imagine an 8 hour drive when you gotta stop three times to charge for 30 minutes. Who has time for that?

[freshandsaltyjohnny]

Ev's are so dumb at the current moment. I used to to do uber and pick people up at EV charging stations and always ask them what they pay for electricity, then me being economist and math minded calculated how much it cost for his uber to and from his car since his car was an EV charging station and because it was facebook's charging station it was free. Yet he paid $25 for the ride there and another $25-30 for the ride back and then i always wondered how dumb these people were. HYBRIDS are the kings of the road right now because you get 2 forms of fuel. Plug in hybrids are achieving 95-150 mpge right now why the hell would you buy all electric. With battery technology progressing and rapid charging progressing wait a few years and maybe just maybe well NO let's be real here there is no maybe Hybrid is the king up until 2035 when ICE engines are banned and 2050 no ICE production will exist. if you are going all electric at least have a brain and buy something better than TESLA. Like a Canoo which has a modular battery system in which it can be replaced like an r/c car. Also it has drive by wire steering lol looking at you tesla. Funny store a elderly couple was traveling to lake tahoe. Long story short they ran out of juice in the thick of the blizzard at the highest elevation point before entering tahoe waited 4-5 hours hours for tow truck to come only to find out that they cannot put the car in neutral because A. There is no electricity hence the car cannot be turned on and put in neutral and B. There is no drive by wire steering lmao so they had to wait another 2 hours for someone to come and charge their car enough to be able to put it in neutral and load the car up on the tow truck. It took them 3x longer for the trip rather than taking an ICE car and they regret it. They ran out of juice because the software of tesla does not consider mountain elevation. They said they purchased the car the ugly one with the falcon doors i think it''s the tesla Y i don't know but they bought it for $80k. with a 320 mile range and after 3 years it's range was barely 230 miles lmao. I showed the older gentleman Canoo and he was immediately trying to sell his car online after he found out about drive by wire steering and everything in the car is modular like the battery pack. The guys was sold. Be a dummy and buy EV buy a smart person and buy hybrid or PHEV your choice.

[maxxamiss]

What a complete scam

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