The other free charging station is a bank but I have to sit in the car during the charge to avoid the risk of being towed. It is a little faster and you always get 6kwh/hr. Considering a full charge is worth about $2-3, is it worth it? I rarely buy anything from the market because it is expensive. Anyone else here do this to get free electricity?
No I do not. My time is undeniably worth more than $1/hour...
Like Mark W says, this thread just shows how different everyone is. To just sit around ANYWHERE to wait for my car to charge, free or not, seems frankly nuts to me. I gots too many dagburn things to do! But I fully respect everyone's differences and please nobody take any offense to my comment -- just an observation, not a put-down in any way.
I like Brian's comment referencing mine, that he can think of 7,500 reasons to buy the car besides saving gas...however to be fair I could have bought a Honda Accord, comparably equipped PLUS a sunroof, for only about $1,000 out of pocket more even after the rebate. And I seriously considered doing this. But I found the Clarity incredibly intriguing and I just had to own one. And I'd bottom-line save about $1K on the purchase and a bit more than that on fuel each year. But resale will be a wild card -- I might have made a financial mistake despite gas savings. I can predict Accord's resale. Not this thing. And despite the tax credit these Claritys are ALREADY languishing on dealer lots here in Indiana. About 5 at every Honda lot in Indianapolis and NOBODY buys them, most have build dates of 2017 and some early 2018. It took me a LONG time to find one with a recent build date because I absolutely refused to purchase a car that the dealer has allowed to sit thru an entire winter for 8 months with a dead battery LOL. And EVERY SINGLE CLARITY I LOOKED AT, at 3 different dealers, ALL had dead batteries. The friggin manual says to NEVER go more than 3 months with out a charge! But the dealers are too stupid to realize they're likely damaging all these batteries. Of course not one dealer has a charger. One salesman scoured the lot to find an outdoor 110V outlet at my request, so it could charge overnight and I could finally test-drive one in EV mode the next day -- poor guy he pulled too close to a low pole near an outlet, and opened the door right into it...HARD. Brand new car now went straight to the body shop because it was so dang hard to plug in a car at that dealer...I test drove that car with a huge dent in the door LOL. And of course I didn't want it cuz build date was too old. Plus it had a huge dent. A different local dealer finally found me one in the color and trim line I wanted that was less than 3 months old, and they had to bring it in from 100 miles away so I could buy one.
And I have yet to see another on on the road. And I have found ONE other human being who had even heard of the car's name, and he was dumbfounded that I was driving a hydrogen car in Indiana, telling me they are only practical in California. I explained I am not fueling with hydrogen...so he still never heard of the PHEV version. And everyone else just flatly says "You got a Honda what??....never heard of it."
As time marches on, I'm finding it sorta comical owning this car.
As a midwesterner, frankly I see this car going the way of the first 2001-ish Insight. A weird anomaly in the history of Honda. Only this time I'm actually part of that weird chapter in history.
