FYI...Duke Energy offers a $10 credit per EV (max 2 vehicles) in your household if you agree to only charge the vehicle during off-peak hours. After learning about this, I was curious to see how this would work as I typically only charge during their advertised off-peak hours anyway.
Signing up with this program requires logging into your Tesla account with Rolling Energy Resources, which grants them access to view your charging history and location at all times. This didn't seem like a huge issue to me, until I started noticing my car waking up every 30 minutes on the dot. Sitting in the room next to the garage, I'd hear a "click click" noise and notice the car seemed to be kicking in. I check the router to see if the car is connected, sure enough it's online and the car is awake. Literally every 30 minutes the car wakes up, assuming just to check charging status.
Logged into my Tesla account and changed the password to kill their login, and now the car sleeps like normal only waking up once per 24 hours if not used. This program is nowhere close to being worth the $10/mo they are offering if the car can't sleep and is constantly using excess power just to check its own status. Maybe in due time they will offer a real program that will monitor the actual charger installed at the home, but until then I'd advise anyone to stay away from this program.
Off-PEAK PERIODS: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 9 p.m.-5 a.m., weekends and holidays
HOLIDAYS: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Good Friday, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
Signing up with this program requires logging into your Tesla account with Rolling Energy Resources, which grants them access to view your charging history and location at all times. This didn't seem like a huge issue to me, until I started noticing my car waking up every 30 minutes on the dot. Sitting in the room next to the garage, I'd hear a "click click" noise and notice the car seemed to be kicking in. I check the router to see if the car is connected, sure enough it's online and the car is awake. Literally every 30 minutes the car wakes up, assuming just to check charging status.
Logged into my Tesla account and changed the password to kill their login, and now the car sleeps like normal only waking up once per 24 hours if not used. This program is nowhere close to being worth the $10/mo they are offering if the car can't sleep and is constantly using excess power just to check its own status. Maybe in due time they will offer a real program that will monitor the actual charger installed at the home, but until then I'd advise anyone to stay away from this program.