>>> Actually that 3 cent rate is a bait-and-switch. They give you two
meters.
>>> And then if you take the 3 cent off-peak charging, then your house ON
>>> peak rate goes way up to 17 cents (from ten)...
>>
>>I agree that the "time of use" rate may not be a cost savings depending
>>upon your
On Wed May 22 12:12:36 PDT 2019 ev@lists.evdl.org said:
>On 5/22/19 3:08 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
>> Actually that 3 cent rate is a bait-and-switch. They give you two meters.
>> And then if you take the 3 cent off-peak charging, then your house ON peak
>> rate goes way up to 17 cents
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] Road Trips: plugin vs EV cost per mile (4 cents
average)
Bob said (in part):
> For a pure EV. Yes, they pay 28 cents per kwh for that 13% of the
> time, but all the rest of the time they pay very reduced
Bob said (in part):
> For a pure EV. Yes, they pay 28 cents per kwh for that 13% of the time,
> but all the rest of the time they pay very reduced rates overnight. Our
> utility offers EV charging overnight at 3 cents per kWh. That's almost
> TEN TIMES cheaper than when they charge on the road.
People rarely do the math. Say they do a 660 mile trip 3 times a year and
they drive the normal American 15,000 miles a year, then the trip mileage
is only 13% of their total usage. Miniscule.
For a pure EV. Yes, they pay 28 cents per kwh for that 13% of the time,
but all the rest of the time