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The unit, the connector and your electricity are three different targets. Solid fixings, visible placement and access control cover each one in turn.
Sort the old charger by condition first: a working unit can be a spare or change hands, a covered fault is a claim, and a dead unit is e-waste, never trash.
Leave the car plugged in with a moderate charge limit, switch off the features that wake it, plan for the 12-volt battery, and check in by app weekly.
A charging membership pays when the fee divided by the per-kWh member discount is less than the public energy you buy each month. The break-even maths, with labelled example numbers.
Your meter bills total energy, not session count, so daily top-ups and big weekly sessions cost the same on a flat rate. The exceptions are time-of-use windows and small losses.
On a time-of-use plan, wrong-hours charging costs the rate gap times the energy that lands there. How to price one mistake, and a year of them, with your own plan’s numbers.
Where your energy comes from matters more than how much you use. Three worked home-and-public mixes for a 12,000-mile year, using average US prices and one labelled fast-charging example.
The charger, the circuit and the app accounts are three separate questions. What your day-one agreement says decides almost all of it.
Reimbursement is kWh recorded × the agreed rate. Whether you break even depends on your own tariff and when you charge — here is the arithmetic.
Yes — if each car charges under its own RFID card or app account. Four separation methods compared, from per-user cards to a circuit submeter.
