Can't do this in an electric car

@ninalanyon Looks like Tesla is selective in where it offers free charging (if at all). But this sounds like a great deal for you.

In the US, no one I know of who owns a Tesla gets free charging.

I don't own a Tesla, and I rarely go to a charging station. I usually get home, plug into my 60AMP home charger and by the time I am ready to head out in the morning, I have a full charge. Our legal electrical grid is hydro-fed, so we have the lowest rates in the country, even though we're in competition now with data centers (especially that Amazon and Microsoft are both "local" home companies).

Toyota's Fuel Cell cars are shipping in volume in California, but the network is not ready in Washington State. Toyota is also offering Californias 6 year free hydrogen fuel (3 if the car is leased).

@Northwest Free charging was only offered for the first few years. I think they cancelled it in 2016 and reinstated it in 2017 for one year. It only ever applied to the Model S and Model X. I bought mine second-hand from Tesla and the free charging was a feature of the car. But now if Tesla buys back a car they remove the free charging feature before reselling it. I think Tesla offered the feature everywhere in the beginning as a way of encouraging sales. There was also a period when you could make a one off payment to add the feature to the car. In the long run it probably cost Tesla a lot of money, especially in Norway because there were no restrictions on the charging because it belonged to the car not the owner so some taxi drivers bought a Model S. Tesla Norway apparently emailed owners that were making heavy use of free supercharging to ask them to not do it at peak times so as to leave stalls available for other users; this was when there were not many chargers.

I don't understand why Toyota keep pushing fuel cell cars. Hydrogen makes no sene for private cars. It's probably only a sensible alternative for heavy equipment and vehicles that need to operate far from good grid connections. The end to end efficiency is worse than batteries, never mind the need to install and fill thousands of hydrogen tanks.

@ninalanyon we are on our second Hybrid. First was a Prius, this one a high end Camry hybrid. Can't believe it's now 10 years old and still worth almost $10k. I hope it holds out until plug in hybrids become affordable. With Biden out of the way gas powered anything will hopefully make a comeback.