Ottawa, Ontario — Tesla has changed how it bills its Canadian customers for charging. Instead of being billed for the time spent at the charging station, users will be charged according to the amount of electricity put into their vehicles.
The move comes after an extended wait—six months after Measurement Canada granted a temporary dispensation order allowing charging providers to bill customers per kWh, and more than two years after the government first began the process.
The temporary dispensation was granted in late February this year, prompting some charging operators to make the switch. Those companies later ha to backtrack and use time-based billing due to a “complicated application process,” wrote Drive Tesla Canada.
Drive Tesla Canada reports that rates are consistent across the nation, and said it would cost about $20 to charge a Model Y Long Range from 20 percent battery to 80 percent. Urban-based Superchargers are the slowest to charge, but also the cheapest at less than $0.30 per kWh. Rates range from $0.47 per kWh to $0.48 per kWh for V2 and V3 level chargers in all provinces.
