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.
I have PG&E so if I charge off-peak (midnight to 3pm) then I only pay about twice the national average for electricity. 😁
(Fortunately I have solar PV.)
I do. My rate is three times less for charging. And the great thing about having Solar with the EV rate is for every $1.00 of excess solar electricity I send to the power company, I get $3.00 back.
We’ve had this for years in Whitby Ontario(just outside of Toronto). There’s 3 different levels throughout the day, between $0.15/kWh down to $.074/kWh. You have the choice to switch to equalized billing as well. They did change our meter out but as long as you organize when you’ll do laundry, charging EV, etc it’s great.
Georgia Power. I have a crazy low rate overnight on paper ($0.017). Add in the $0.06 fees and it’s still a great deal. In exchange, we pay something like $0.35 during summer peak (2:00 - 7:00), but we have solar so I rarely pay that at all.
All said, two EVs raise our bill around $50 a month.
Yes, I’m on separately metered time of use, shared with my heated slabs
Here in canada , off hours are usually from 7pm to 7am and entire weekends .
In Ontario the pricing is roughly 8 cents per kwh
Not worth it for me. The vast majority of my power usage is air conditioning.