In the UK, public fast chargers are mostly around the 80p/kwh Mark. With a decently light foot and getting 4 miles per kwh, that’s 20p a mile. With gas at £1.55 a litre, and a 60mpg (UK) hybrid, that’s about 12p a mile.
Home charging an ev on an appropriate tariff costs about 7p/kwh, or about 1.75p per mile.
Public charging is fucking expensive.
I can’t bring myself to belive the server wasn’t just an asshole. Someone coming into a restaurant, using Google translate and asking “please may I have a grenade juice?” would not make me think “I have a grenade and am here to blow up the place.” Its waaaaay more likely that the dumb machine fucked up the translation. You gotta be a massive xenophobe to jump to that conclusion.