Someone mentioned their utility was offering an incentivizing pilot program, cutting their electric rate by 50% for after hours charging. I don’t know how common/difficult/affordable this is for utilities, but as a prospective new ev owner I’d love if my utility did this. For any of you lucky enough to have such a program, did you have to install a dedicated meter, what’s it like and how’s it going?
I am paying 2.4 cents per kwh (before all the delivery crap they add on) from 11pm to 7am in Ontario. In exchange, I pay a higher rate from 4pm to 9pm and also slightly higher rate for rest of weekdays. I mean it’s nice that we got that, but I suspect it’s more or less a wash since utilities add so much crap on top. Would be nice if my car supported V2L, but alias it doesn’t.
I think smart meters are required for time of day billing. However, they are rather common in Ontario so I didn’t have to do anything special to get the rate.