ANN ARBOR — After a decade of providing free charging for EVs at downtown parking facilities, the Downtown Development Authority, which manages the city’s public parking system, has implemented new user fees to cover electricity and other costs.
Starting this week, drivers now must pay 25 cents per kilowatt hour while their cars charge at downtown EV spots.
That’s on top of regular parking fees they’ve always had to pay, which are $1.20 an hour in parking structures.
About 10 cents of the new per-kWh fee covers the DDA’s cost for power from the DTE Energy grid, while about 7 cents goes toward administrative costs and about 2.5 cents goes to ChargePoint Inc., the company under contract with the city to operate and maintain 80 newly installed ChargePoint chargers, said Maura Thomson, DDA communications manager.
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