How much are you guys actually paying monthly and per kWh for your EV charging? I am sick of these power companies and wallbox providers trying to scam everyone with these insane 20 to 50 CHF monthly subscriptions just for “load management.” For those without an EV yet: when you install a charger in a shared garage, these providers try to force you into a subscription just to “manage the power.” It is a massive cash grab by companies who are shamelessly exploiting property managements and end customers. They are selling a “service” that technically does not even need to exist. Balancing the power load is a one-time technical setup. It is not a recurring service. The entire installation is a one-time cost for pulling the cables and the initial OCPP configuration. That is it. Wallboxes with the open OCPP standard are literally built to communicate with each other. They do not need a cloud overseer to tell them how to share power. It is like your internet provider charging you a monthly subscription just to let your phone and your laptop talk to each other on your own private Wi-Fi. It is total BS. If a building is actually worried about compatibility, the solution is simple. They can just mandate a specific wallbox type for everyone in the garage. There is zero technical reason to force people into a subscription for a protocol that is supposed to be open. These providers are just trapping us because they know they have a monopoly on the garage infrastructure and they are betting on the fact that most people do not understand how OCPP works. How many of you in a shared garage are stuck paying these stupid fees? And are you billed through your own apartment meter or are they forcing you to use a middleman provider that adds their own margin on every single kWh? We really need to call this out. submitted by /u/Swigor
Originally posted by u/Swigor on r/Switzerland