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1 yuan per minute: new energy vehicle charging space fees are criticized as too expensive

2024-09-09

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according to kuai technology on september 9, with the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the construction and maintenance of supporting facilities are particularly important. otherwise, there will be an embarrassing situation where there are too many wolves and too little meat, and too many monks and too little porridge. in order to alleviate the charging problem,many manufacturers' self-built charging stations will charge "overtime occupancy fees", including tesla, xpeng, zeekr, etc.

this is actually normal and understandable, but some consumers have recently reported that some charging stations are charging occupancy fees without any reminders or the reminders are not clear enough, and the fees are not low.

recently, a taxi driver said that he was charging at a xiaopeng fast charging pile. after everything was ready, he went back to the car and waited for charging to be completed. he remembered that there was a reminder that he could park for free for 2 hours while charging, so he calculated the time and when he felt it was about time, he pulled out his gun and prepared to leave. as a result, when he looked at the bill,it showed that he needed to pay more than 47 yuan, of which 29 yuan was for the seat reservation fee.

this puzzled him. he could park for free for 2 hours, so why was he charged a parking fee? he read the rules carefully again and found a line of small print saying "if you do not unload the gun and leave the parking space within 30 minutes after charging, a parking fee of 1 yuan per minute will be charged.。”

it turned out that the vehicle only took more than an hour to complete charging, but since the gun was not unloaded and driven away in time, a parking fee was incurred.

the complainant stated that he did not receive any reminder after his vehicle finished charging, and the notice of the parking space fee was not obvious. moreover, he was charging in the suburbs, there were plenty of charging spaces that day, and there was no need to wait in line, so he believed that the charge was unreasonable.

it is understood that the original intention of charging the "space fee" was to increase the utilization rate of charging piles under tight charging resources and avoid hindering the use of other car owners, but the charging standard does not agree with it.

the most expensive of these is tesla. car owners are required to leave the charging space immediately after charging. if they leave within five minutes, they will not be charged an overtime fee.if the parking time exceeds 5 minutes, an overtime occupancy fee will be charged per minute, 3.2 yuan/minute during off-peak hours (less than 50% of the parking spaces are available) and 6.4 yuan/minute during busy hours (no parking spaces are available).