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throwaway2037today at 12:20 PM4 repliesview on HN

    > I am able to charge cars at work
Nice perk! Does you know who pays for the electricty? Is this "virtue signalling" by the company or landlord... or a subsidy from the local/state/national gov't? To be clear, I am not making any value judgement about providing free charging for EVs. It seems like good gov't policy to promote the adoption of EVs.

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freshpotstoday at 12:27 PM

It costs $5-$10 for the electricity to charge a car using level 2 charging. It is a trivial "perk" for an employee that costs an order of magnitude more per hour of work.

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reyoztoday at 12:57 PM

We have a company fleet which is being slowly converted to EV where possible in line with company net zero policy so there is good charging infrastructure that is extended to all employees. We also have other initiatives such as solar and biogas generation.

sjsdaiuasgdiatoday at 1:25 PM

> Is this "virtue signalling"

> I am not making any value judgement

Calling something "virtue signalling" is a value judgement.

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bahmbootoday at 1:12 PM

throwaway account and "virtue signalling" plus a dig at so called subsidies. Oh and "no value judgement" except for the value judgement. You are not helpful here.

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