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So this costs the driver $1 per 6 miles? If gas is $3/gallon and my car gets 24 mpg, then I'm paying $1 per 6 miles. This is not on par with the Mirage's 36/43mpg.

Your service effectively makes electric cars equally or more expensive to drive than gas cars. Could work but seems to remove a solid benefit of EVs.

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You have a point on this one. However, it's not my service that's causing this. The price suggested was based on public charging rate, and the money will go to the hosts. There's no way to guarantee profit for the hosts always given electricity rates will change and gas prices will likely drop. The miles per kWh also changes depending on how you drive and the weather. Typical users will have a combination of home, workplace, public, and peer to peer charging. The total should still make EVs cheaper to drive. If all chargings are done via ampUp, yes the cost maybe as high or even higher than driving gas car. It's not likely, and peer to peer charging does add the reservation/predictability benefit to it.

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