Abstract
Most residents of multifamily housing (MFH) and urban homes with only street parking (i.e., no garage or private driveway) do not have access to home electric vehicle (EV) charging. These residents rely primarily on public direct current fast charging (DCFC) stations where the price of electricity is not regulated and in turn more expensive compared to what a single-family household would pay.
This policy brief highlights findings from research that compared charging costs at public EV DCFC stations to the cost for single-family housing (SFH) residents charging at home for three California electric utility service areas and for three urban areas – Sacramento, San Diego, and San Jose. The research used a combination of observed pricing data from PlugShare, a crowd-sourced database of public EV charging, and public DCFC pricing data from electric vehicle service provider (EVSP) websites, as well as electric utility tariff information from their respective websites.
