I work in Corporate Woods so there are charging stations all over this place. In our building parking lot alone there are six chargers. I've only seen one car use it in the last 6 months and I'm guessing that was someone passing through since I've never seen them here before or since.
So I think using the charging station at work will be a no brainer and trouble-free for years. This is also in JoCo, known for trucks and SUV's, I see more EV's in the Northland than I do down here. So I don't think I'll have much competition for the charging stations around here for years, if not decades.
I definitely would be charging at work every day, but likely not full charging. I'd probably just do an hour charge.
To answer the question of why I'm considering this. We are a two car family, we use my wife's car for all our family drives. My car literally is 99% just commuting to work and the other 1% is running 15 mile or less errands here and there on the weekends or evenings. So I felt an EV would be a really good fit.
While the KCP&L charging is free I'd save quite a bit of money, but I do have concerns about what the cost will be next year. I've heard since it is KCP&L they will bill me on my electric bill. I don't know if they will charge more or less than my home rate. Our rates aren't as cheap as some of these other high EV states, my electric bill runs around .135 per kwh.
Assuming I charge roughly 30 kwh per day that is $4.05 a day. On the weekends I probably would only need to charge Friday night and be good to still make it to work Monday. That would put my electric cost at $20.25 per week. Right now I spend about $28 per week on gas for my car. So only about an $8/week savings on "fuel" between the two vehicles.
I see people talking about saving thousands on gas, but they must drive some very low mpg vehicles to do that. I will save about $100 per year in oil changes. And this would also act as a hedge against rising fuel costs. I expect we won't see $3 gas before 2018, but inevitably gas prices will go up.
I might consider a 2016 model as mentioned above, but then we'd be talking about a purchase likely in 2018 as there don't seem to be many used models newer than 2015 right now, and the 2015's aren't all that plentiful. Plus, I'm trying to keep the purchase price to around $12K or less. If a used 2016 were available today I'd be surprised if I could nab it for under $15K.