- November 27, 2024
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Palm Coast will begin charging people to use electric vehicle charging stations on city property beginning on Nov. 1 for a six-month trial period.
The city will charge an initial 50-cent connection fee, then 18 cents per kilowatt hour. Once the connected vehicle is fully charged, the owner will have 30 minutes to disconnect the car before they are charged a fee of $5 per hour until the disconnection.
Chief Sustainability and Resiliency Officer Maeven Rogers will return to the City Council in six months to present an update on the use of the chargers and the fee revenue they generate.
The City Council's Oct. 3 meeting agenda documents about EV chargers referred to fees only for the Chargepoint charger at City Hall, with another coming to the Southern Recreation facility, but the council unanimously agreed to amend the resolution to include all chargers on city property.
The City Hall charging station had 108 sessions in September, 109 in August and 102 in July, Rogers wrote in an email. A "session" refers to an instance in which an EV vehicle is plugged into a charger for more than two minutes.
