Does EVGo start from the App? Or only with the tap card (I never signed up to get on e until today) or phone call (which I don't feel I can count on in the middle of the night or even 9AM Saturday morning).

 

Yes, EVGo credits work at Chargepoint stations. You must start the charge either with the EVGo app or the EVGo RFID card to use your credits.

The RFID card can take a long, long time to arrive after you order it, so if your trip is in the near future I'd plan on just using the EVGo app.

 

I don't know the answer, especially with regard to credits, but here's my datapoint.

We drove from DC to Cape Cod with three EVGo stops along the way. I'd updated the EVGo app in my phone the night before and enabled everything that seemed useful.

Charging worked like a dream. I didn't fiddle with a tap card, a credit card, the infotainment screen, or a phone. I simply plugged in, waited for the green "Continue" button to light on the kiosk's screen, hit the button and walked away. Easier than filling with gas.

 

Download the EVGo app and register your Bolt to use "Plug and play" It's EVGos version and works flawlessly for me.

 

I start sessions using my EVgo app, works flawlessly. Still have $400 left that I need to spend in the next 18 mo.

 

When does the $500 expire?
Thanks.

 

What i hate about driving through the states is that sometimes the electricity costs almost as much as gas! I guess I am spoiled in Quebec where it costs .10cents a KWh.

 

Gas is way too cheap. Should be double the current amount of $3.80/ gallon in the USA. And redistribute the Carbon fee as a dividend equally to every household so people that don't waste Carbon energy actually come out progressively better off. The charge network providers have to maintain a viable business model. I don't mind paying at parity with gas for the couple times per year that I charge on the road. All the rest of the time of daily commuting I pay not even half versus gas in a 40 mpg car.

 

Yeah, we are paying for gas... but in our taxes. The true cost of gas is, according to 25-year-old studies, is closer to $8-$16/gal. Anyone who complains about EV tax credits needs to answer for that first. When my father-in-law told me, "EVs are nice, but I just don't like the government shoving them down our throats." I said, "Well, I'm tired of the government shoving gasoline down our throats.... which they've been doing for about 100 years."

The fossil fuel industry, world wide, receives aproximately 11 million dollars a minute in government subsidies.

 

I've used charge point for my EV Go credits. Just go to the Evgo app and select partner chargers and the charge Point locations come up. If it's ok the list, it should work. You must do it through the Evgo app to get your credit. Look at transactions.

 

You need a EVgo card and it will activate chargepoint chargers. But you can't do it from your phone.