Residents are not permitted to run cables over the sidewalk to charge an electric vehicle (EV).
Cables on the sidewalk, exposed or in a cable cover, are a tripping hazard and electrocution risk and are not permitted.
Any resident currently charging an EV in this manner must stop immediately.
A formal warning will be issued to any unit owner violating this rule, subsequent offensives will be subject to a fine up to $500.
Use the Greenspot charging stations on the main road to charge an EV.
The Board's Message to Greenspot:
It has been a few years and several Highview residents, including myself, have an EV and would like to charge their vehicles at the Greenspot stations, but the $0.45/kWh plus a $0.50 session fee is too expensive. For example, if you are a Tesla member ($12.99 / mo) a local Supercharger station with a Magic Dock available charges between $0.27 and $0.45/kWh, depending on congestion. Paying extra to charge from 20% to 80% in 30 to 40 minutes can justify these prices even at the high end. A 50kW session costs about $23.00 at the Greenspoot L2 station and takes 6-8 hours, versus $13.50 - $23.00 at Tesla, which only takes 30-40 minutes.
Does Greenspot have a membership program that would eliminate the per session fee and significantly lower the cost per kWh for members?
What other options exist for lowering the energy prices of the charging stations?
Greenspot's Response:
Thank you for the feedback below. It is a hard comparison between a level 2 station and DC especially Tesla. Considering the $12.99 monthly fee and if even if you charge your car 13 times a month you are paying $1 for every connection based on the membership.
Attached is our bill which shows $0.26 per kwh. Tesla operates there system to make a small profit but ultimately build their EV charging network to help increase the sale of their cars. They are not surviving on just the sale of energy. After this energy cost we are left with $0.19. We have processing fees which are around $.49 plus 2.5/4% depending on the CC. This is why we have the connection fee to help mitigate the cost. So now we have $0.17/$0.18. We have set fees for sim cards, our network per port cost and yearly network fee to operate. We have 24/7 customer service which is also per port. Given all of this we now are done to about $0.12. This is a very small amount of profit per kwh given we invested $45k for this project. In order to just get back $20k towards the investment we need to sell 160,000 kwh given the spread. Monthly usage is at 1300, so if this proceeds the same we will see it back in over 10 yrs.
We lost money due to the commercial rate that we were on till PSE&G allowed a residential rate in the past summer. So now in January we made $160. Yes we did receive grants/rebates but over the life of our term there we have lost $566.
The location is convenient within the neighborhood which also justifies a slightly higher price. I do not think the amount of EV drivers in the neighborhood can drive utilization high enough to reduce the spread. The EV adoption is just not there.
We will look into a membership program but it will help to see how many drivers would be willing to sign up to consider a % discount.