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Driving about 1500 miles/mo around Northeastern MA costs me about $90/mo. As National Grid requires a minimum monthly average use of 2500 KWh to be eligible for TOD rates and as New England continues its transition from low cost base load plants, I'm afraid my costs are only going to increase. Because of National Grid's ridiculous high minimum load criteria to access TOD rates, I can and do charge my Models S whenever I want even if that drives up their peak load.
Heh, I'm a unique case. My old daily driver ICE is a highly modified Mazda that gets single digits MPG numbers if you get on the throttle. I averaged south of 15mpg. As such, I'd spend about $60 every 5 days, or $360/mo which is a little over $4300/yr.
boonedocks
MS LR Blk/Blk 19”
Average over 6 months is $22 per month higher than same 6 months last year and averaging 2,500 miles per month. My EMC has a great EV rate plan for homeowners
You're paying 7 cents/kWh including distribution charges???
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They SHOULD decrease, but there's a scam going on. 10 years ago average retail was 12c/kWh. Last winter, despite the main source fuel being at historic lows, the price was 24c/kWh.
dhrivnak
Active Member
It went up about $20/month for about 800 miles of driving. But that was before solar so now in effect my marginal cost is $0.
9 cents actually, but I use 10 cents as charging isn't 100% efficient and on the more recent vacations there is SC or destination charger use.
(63 k mi * 248 Wh/mi) * $0.10 = $1562.40
Larry
Member
2 years 40000 miles. On an EV A rate in northern ca. Costs $30 a month over what I was paying before the S
CaptDaveHowe
Member
While rebates are still around, I would strongly suggest solar panels. After one year since having them installed I just received a credit for $150 from PSEG. So in essence, the cost was free driving. Solar and EV just go together.
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hybridbear
Active Member
That's so not fair!!! We have excess wind power in MN at night that gets wasted & yet our TOU rates are a rip off & our local utility offers an EV plan which requires sub-metering at a cost of multiple thousand dollars which makes their plans worthless.
Our Energy charge with standard rates is $0.0804/kWh for winter & $0.08671/kWh in the summer, plus the fuel cost charge (about $0.03/kwh) & all the other fees/taxes. The TOU plan would be $0.03015/kWh from 9:00 pm to 9:00 am plus weekends/holidays. The peak rate would be $0.20077/kWh in the summer & $0.16454 in the winter. Additionally, the monthly basic service charge would go up by $4 per month to have TOU versus standard service. Since we live in an apartment it wouldn't make sense for us to go TOU since our EVs don't charge on our circuit. We use a small enough amount of electricity in our apartment that the $4 increase in monthly service charge would cost us more than we'd save. Our EVs charge in the underground garage which is three-phase industrial power which is billed to the complex owner. They charge us $40 a month for about 1300 miles of EV driving between the two cars. We track our kWh used via the Trip Meters of each car to make sure we aren't using more power than we're paying for. It's been about 1.5 years & it's worked well. If we end up replacing our two EVs with a Model S we would expect to keep the same cost & a similar amount of monthly kWh used.
Aussie Bob
Member
My additional electricity costs have been over the year that I have owned the car about $30-40/month compared to my Infinti gasoline costs of $300-350/month. I also tend to drive the Tesla more than the Infiniti.
Agree, I also live in T.O. and my SCE bill went down about $50 but I changed the pool equipment to run during the TOU period. That won't work in the summer but for now it's additional savings.
