Overcharging by $0.64/day, it seems like the $200 outlay for the electrciciy meter might be the better way to go over the long haul. You'd be ahead after 313 rides by my rough math.
Overall, i wish you luck in resolving this, but it seems like you've made great strides already. Going from not being able to charge at all, to being able to charge for pennies (OK, dimes) a day is definitely progress.
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Metal Man
She doesn't ride the bike to necessarily save money. While that's nice, for her it's more about the enjoyment and the exercise. She has lost a lot of weight since she got serious about riding bike. As I've said we currently have three cars so any savings are mostly on the fuel end and compared to the electric car that would be just about nothing. At $.10 a kWh the car would cost about $.60 to run to work and back. So for what the want to charge her for electricity it would cost more to ride the bike than drive the car, great deal.
Yes, She could make the round trip under ideal conditions at a slow speed. The idea of an electric bike is to level out some of the hills and keep a slightly faster pace.
The main issues with this are that, especially at a state facility, this should be encouraged for health and environmental reasons.
She has been hassled for 5 months now about this mostly from the person who is in charge of the expenses of the hospital. Almost all of my wife's time spent on this has been her personal time. There has been HOURS of state time spent hassling her about this.
They pay for electricity for coffee pots, microwaves, and many other things that are not work related.
She will gladly pay for the electricity she uses and has offered to pay twice the cost.
They first asked her to pay $200 for a meter to do this.
They then said they would accept documentation on what it uses to establish what she pays. We have provided that documentation and yet here we are still spending state time, and ours, trying to come to an agreement on something that is so trivial that not more than a few minutes should have been spent to come to an agreement.