Chargepoint Usage, people?

Never used it. Nothing near work. If I had one near, I might have used it till the free $100 was up. There is one fairly close, but they charge for parking too.

 

Steve, I completely agree with you and "Dad": ChargePoint is practically useless. As you've pointed out, people park in the station all day, and (my repeated experience) the other station is inoperative. Or stations are occupied or the station is on private property (you're not allowed), or the station is miles away from your destination. My $100 card got me about $2.50 of use in 3 months!! Maybe if they gave you a year to use, it might have value, otherwise, please just give me the money! To be successful, they've got to setup charging stations on more shopping centers (Walmarts use to have older style chargers; Costco could also offer them) and work parking lots, high schools, colleges, etc.


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There isn't a ChargePoint charger, nor any other type of charger, anywhere I ever go outside of home and work.

 

There is one about 3 miles from house and would like to use up the $100 credit to save on my electricity bill but have not figured out a way to drop it off and pick it up. My best option is to put my bike in the back and ride it home. Not sure it is worth the effort.

 

Sorry. I'll use every penny of mine. There are 6 stations at work and 2 at each of the nearby parks.

The 2 at the grocery store are free.

 

When I visit my son in Ypsilanti Michigan I make it an all day affair ( I have time to do this so I do it) It's approximately 21 miles to Schoolcraft College, the Charge Point terminals there are free as well as the parking (two Charge Points in the front of the school and two Charge Points at the library) After charging my car there I drive another 21 miles to Washtenaw Community College where there are ten Charge Points, all free and parking is free too, then I drive another 7 miles to my son's house spend time there then drive back to Washtenaw CC charge up then to Schoolcraft CC then drive home all EV 107 miles round trip.

 

You folks in Michigan definitely have a better situation with ChargePoint.

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I've actually had a lot of success with Chargepoint. There are a ton of stations and I figured I may as well use my $100 card for the summer and save some money on charges. I live in LA and there are a ton of charge point stations and the app is very user friendly. I definitely recommend trying it if you haven't already.

 

There is a program that keeps track of the charge and how much longer it will take to complete. Hopefully people will not be taking up space after the charge is complete.

 

$46 left in the card then it came the accident. It took Geico 4 weeks to get everything fixed. Then time's up.

 

Aw man, that's terrible; everybody ok?
What happened? Sorry to hear that.

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My 1st ChargePoint was to try out at a Walgreens parking lot totally wasted my 70 minutes to save $1.06. Even it was 2 miles away there is no easy way to leave me car charging to do something else. Right now I use ChargePoint station at work. After my free 100 days up that will be my ChargePoint account. They are charging by the time of usage not KW. It just can't justify to spend more on electricity than gasoline. I will charge at home after that.

 

It seems to be the case that if you've got a ChargePoint station at or near work or school, you're good. Another situation is the mall/shopping center. I'm working at different sites every day, none of which has a ChargePoint. None of the shopping centers I visited in Anaheim have convenient ChargePoint stations.
They are more common in uppercrust communities like Huntington Beach, Lake Forest, and Newport Beach, but I don't live or shop there anymore.

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Westfield mall has ChargePoint station in Arcadia, however there is $3.00 surcharge if you charge more than 2 hours. Prius Prime normally takes 2 hours 10 minutes to get full charge.

 

Actually, there is one a long walk across the entire parking lot near the Costco I'm going to tomorrow. However, it's EVGo, not Chargepoint and it's $2 an hour which is about the equivalent of getting 15mpg in the Prime. Or, I can gas up at Costco in 3 minutes or charge at work for free. Not a difficult choice.

A friend who also goes there does use the station for his Leaf. But he gets the first half hour free at L3 which basically gets him 15KWh for free while he's shopping.

 

It would be nice if ChargePoint gave us the option of the $100 card or as a credit/rebate if we purchased a ChargePoint Level 2 unit for a home. That would have made it of value to me since I'll probably be installing a ChargePoint in my garage pretty soon.

 

I agree they should have given $100 credit on L2 purchase. Went with clippercreek instead.

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ChargePoint apps said: There is no status after I plugged into ChargePoint station at work this morning. After 20 minutes I had to walk back to check car was charging correctly. Luckily I set my alarm clock after 2 hours 10 minutes charge was completed. My ChargePoint apps didn't show any charge status/history for this morning. Does overcast weather affect the ChargePoint signal?

 

Public Chargepoint stations use a built-in cell phone to call home. Usually there is a menu on the public chargers where you can see how strong the cell signal is.

Home Chargepoint stations use the owner's WiFi.

While a home charger does not NEED the Internet connection to work, it's a bit different on the public stations that have to deal with billing.