That's a bit extreme. We _want_ people to use and to be able to rely public charging. Not everyone can charge at home. They may live at an apartment or condo without charging. For PHEVs, we _want_ them to plug in if it means they'll be able to drive more EV miles.planet4ever said:As has been said by a number of people in a variety of ways, that is NOT the correct mindset. For gasoline vehicles all fuel is purchased at a filling station. For electric vehicles, it is expected that most fuel will be purchased at home. If you don't have any way to charge at home you shouldn't have an EV.Cheezmo said:The mindset isn't so much that charging should be free, it is that it should be less expensive than former means of transportation. If driving my Volt 40 miles costs 1 gallon of gas and driving my Volt 40 miles on electricity costs 13kWh of electricity (4 hours of charging), then charging needs to cost less than 1 gallon of gas. That comes to just under $1/hour and I'm actually cool with paying $1/hour.
Now if public charging costs more than gas and this turns PHEV drivers off? Oh well. You can't convince everyone that driving EV has more benefits than saving a few cents per mile. For some people that's what it's all about - never mind they spent quite a bit of money just so they could drive EV in the first place...