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Seems to me they’re essentially going to subtract any kWh that goes through the charger from your overall home use, then for any of those kWh done during peak times you get charged $0.22 for, and nothing extra for the off peak charging. Everything that doesn’t go through the charger would be...

If you google "FPL rate tariff" and scroll down to their "RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SERVICES RIDER PILOT" you can find the breakdown of the rates. For the self-install plan there's a "Monthly Program Charge" of $18.41 and a "Monthly Off-Peak Energy Charge" of $12.73 for a total of...

Wowza, thanks for the heads up. Is this a residential or commercial account with FPL that you had this surprise charge on? EDIT: my bad, you said it got changed from a personal to a business account. Missed that on the first read through.

We're also in Florida with an Aug 2018 manufacture date Model 3, and had our 12V battery fail at about 14 months in. It was also bulged out pretty bad on the one side, and Tesla mobile service replaced it under warranty.

I would check to see if you have time of use settings enabled on the JuiceBox. We use the time of use feature, and during peak hours the JuiceBox will still charge at 6 amps. They explained it does that to keep the Tesla from going to sleep and then not charging when the off peak period starts...

As a Floridian I find this level of concern about thunderstorms downright adorable. Our cars are plugged in when not in use.

Ours took a good 2-3months.

I imagine we're going to hear more info on pack size and drivetrain whenever they do the battery investor day thing next year.

That's a good point. So far my experience is that it is crazy skittish about pedestrians, and couldn't care less about cars driving perpendicular to it's direction of travel.

The way the JuiceBox works now if you configure your car as a Tesla through the app is during on peak times it will only allow 6 amps of charging, which works to keep the car awake, but charging at a slower rate. With our other car when that's selected it turns off the charging entirely until...

Short answer: Just charging the cars and running laundry during off peak times. Longer answer: We never run the heat, and I think the coldest it got last winter was something like 68F in the house. If it gets warm enough to warrant running the AC we will just pre-cool the house during the off...

Honestly I don't know for sure, but I got the feeling that peak credits only apply to peak draws from the grid, and off peak credits to off peak draw. For regular net metering the credits accumulate all year, and they pay you out for any excess at the end of the year. I would assume with TOU and...

Yeah, I had to really work to get the first person I talked to convinced that TOU was a thing and that I needed to talk to a supervisor to get the ball rolling on the switch over. The person who called me back after a few days though was very knowledgeable and helpful. Miimura's numbers match...

Incorrect, you can absolutely do both. I've gotten that confirmed by two folks at FPL: one who handles net metering calls (his name was Richard I think), and the other who handles time of use calls. Richard said that of roughly 16,000 net metering customers they have only 20 who are also doing...

If you're going to put in a plug, the 14-50 is way more versatile and found in every camp site around the US. In our case, the EVSE is like 8 feet from our power box, so cable cost difference is negligible. The ease of installation of 4 vs 3 wires is negligible: literally one extra screw to...