Pure Economics: When to Pass Up Fee-Based Public Charging

We now have 8 000 miles on the car. We've never charged anywhere other than home, and occasionally using Charge mode.

On long trips we are in HV (wish the car remembered that) all the time. Best of both worlds. No range anxiety. No waiting for a charge.

Great car.
 
KentuckyKen said:
One vote for Plug Share.
Easy to use and customizable.
Shows all the stations as far as I can tell.
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In hindsight, I've now looked at ChargeHub and PlugShare to compare. Plugshare definitely shows some charging stations that are not shown at ChargeHub (including the Holiday Inn Express station I was able to use at the far end of my trip). Not sure why I chose ChargeHub over PlugShare, but it appears that ChargeHub is *primarily* showing stations that are part of charging networks. Spot-checking just a few areas and ChargeHub isn't showing stations at hotels that are not associated with a network (such as Chargepoint or EVgo) Anyone know for sure?
 
I think PlugShare is pretty good at showing non networked chargers, outlet plug ins, and home chargers that welcome fellow EVers. Locally I’d say about 80-90% of the people charging at my nearest free public charger use it so it’s handy to know when that charger is available.
 
Every time I've done a calculation on the cost of charging (away from home) vs using gas the gas always wins even with high California gas prices. I haven't yet run across a free charge station.
 
Steven B said:
Ok, just registered at PlugShare. They don't list the Clarity, so I picked Accord Plugin.
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When I registered in late Feb/early March, I could pick the Clarity PHEV from the menu. Don’t know why you couldn’t. Just checked and it still a menu option.
 
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