How much does your electricity cost?

[duanra]

6 cents/kw. CAD currency.

 

[mswlogo]

I’m on a time of use plan with Southern California Edison. If I wait until 10pm to charge I pay .10/kWh. I’ve been logging all of my trips using TeslaFi to keep track of how much it is costing me to drive the car.

On a recent road trip to Palm Springs, it shows I drove 107 miles for $2.07. It shows 193 Wh/mi, 110% efficiency.

Does this sound correct? How is it possible that I could drive 107 miles for only $2.07? Am I miscalculating something or is it really that inexpensive to drive my M3? It’s a LR RWD model.

It just seems too good to be true, but if it is true, this car is just absolutely amazing.

At $0.10 kw/h that’s dirt cheap. I pay $0.24 kw/h which would be like $5.00 to go 107 miles. Which is good but nothing that super. Thank goodness I have solar otherwise it would be very hard to just an EV. Although I’m not sure how much Solar Capacity I’ll have to cover all EV Charging.

 

[ebmcs03]

I figured my charging at home is going to cost about $20/month, compared to $120-140/month I was paying for gas in my previous BMW for the same number of miles.

Has your house total bill only gone up $20 since you started charging?

 

[Webeevdrivers]

We pay 11 cents per kWh. All day, all year round. Canadian currency. All power in this province comes from water falling over a wheel. .

 

[destructure00]

Has your house total bill only gone up $20 since you started charging?

I don't have enough data to say for sure yet, only had the car since 3/31. This was just my estimate based on off-peak rates and estimated energy consumption.

 

[SSedan]

Yeah - the 3 is a little more efficient than the S (as it is now - old school batteries). Rumored refresh hopefully will improve that.
Last summer, went across Death Valley - even with the heat I was doing 160 ish Wh/mile. Won't post pics, but later that day was down to 33 Wh/mile crossing Yosemite - enabling me to do 400 + miles on that leg (gotta love regen - 10,000 ft to sea level).

Batteries are not the 3 efficiency gain, it is a different type of motor, a smaller car and a few other things.

The S is getting a similar motor at one end giving a nice range boost, was announced in the last week.

One other thing to add not necessary for the sake of this conversation but for when folks search and find it. If you live in a cold climate heating eats heavily into your "savings" during those months especially if short tripping for those miles. At 65f on my 7mile drive to work my S can see 270wh/m, a cold January morning(Green Bay area) without a preheat from the wall and it will spike over 800 and settle back to 730 by the time I park and that is not capturing charging losses or pack heating to charge. I just want it noted so others reading don't get caught off guard when they use these numbers to calculate ownership cost in Duluth. Also I would bet the 3 is not as bad as the S but it is still going to be a big jump once things go sub-zero.

 

[OCR1]

I’m running both TeslaFi and Stats and I’m noticing a significant amount of vampire drain. I’ve started playing with the sleep settings on TeslaFi but I’m not sure how to find the balance between the most efficient settings and not preventing it from logging my trips. Has anyone found the right balance?

 

[mswlogo]

I’m running both TeslaFi and Stats and I’m noticing a significant amount of vampire drain. I’ve started playing with the sleep settings on TeslaFi but I’m not sure how to find the balance between the most efficient settings and not preventing it from logging my trips. Has anyone found the right balance?

Running both is asking for trouble.

I switched to none. And the past 2 weeks has seen the least vampire drain since a bought the car 6 months ago. 1-2 miles a day, as it’s supposed to be.

 

[SageBrush]

I’m on a time of use plan with Southern California Edison. If I wait until 10pm to charge I pay .10/kWh. I’ve been logging all of my trips using TeslaFi to keep track of how much it is costing me to drive the car.

On a recent road trip to Palm Springs, it shows I drove 107 miles for $2.07. It shows 193 Wh/mi, 110% efficiency.

Does this sound correct? How is it possible that I could drive 107 miles for only $2.07? Am I miscalculating something or is it really that inexpensive to drive my M3? It’s a LR RWD model.

It just seems too good to be true, but if it is true, this car is just absolutely amazing.

The arithmetic is certainly ballpark.

I pay 11.5 cents a kWh and my lifetime consumption during driving is 217 Wh/mile so my per mile cost is
11.5*0.217 = 2.5 cents a mile before accounting for vampire and charging losses. I figure about 3 cents a mile all inclusive.

 

[CAAD]

Without solar, it seems Bay Area, CA still has the highest electric rates. E-TOU-B off peak rate still being higher than EV-A rate at .127. Is going solar the next step to go lower?

 

[Sandollars]

I don't have enough data to say for sure yet, only had the car since 3/31. This was just my estimate based on off-peak rates and estimated energy consumption.

I drive about 2000 miles per month and my Ele. bill has gone up about 60 bucks on average. 1500 of those miles are charged at home or 4 cents per mile, I figure. The other 500 is SC or charging at work

 

[Arizona Willie]

I’m on a time of use plan with Southern California Edison. If I wait until 10pm to charge I pay .10/kWh. I’ve been logging all of my trips using TeslaFi to keep track of how much it is costing me to drive the car.

On a recent road trip to Palm Springs, it shows I drove 107 miles for $2.07. It shows 193 Wh/mi, 110% efficiency.

Does this sound correct? How is it possible that I could drive 107 miles for only $2.07? Am I miscalculating something or is it really that inexpensive to drive my M3? It’s a LR RWD model.

It just seems too good to be true, but if it is true, this car is just absolutely amazing.

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My electric company has an electric vehicle time of day plan that is as low as 5 cents KWH with a max of 14 cents per KWH during the time of heaviest demand.

And that's for the whole house air conditioning included, not just for the car.

 

[jdcollins5]

I have TOU in NC and Off-peak hours, currently 11 PM to 6 AM, the rate is $0.062/kWH.

 

[outie]

I love the time of use plan. I have solar and it generates the most credits at peak time and rates, especially during summer which is enough to cover my whole year usage.

 

[srredbeard]

We pay .065/kwh flat rate anytime of the day. We pay less than 25% in electricity than we used to pay for gasoline each month.

 

[C141medic]

Around .12 cents kWh. Same price day or night. What’s interesting is that I had a solar company come to my home unsolicited and they said that solar would only cost me .16 cents kWh.

 

[Rojer Lockless]

I am not on a time of use plan in Houston. I am on a flat rate, two year contract plan and pay $0.10/kwhr (all in rate).

Do you know the exact plan you're on? I'm in Houston and just got off contract and am looking for a new plan.

 

[ebmcs03]

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My electric company has an electric vehicle time of day plan that is as low as 5 cents KWH with a max of 14 cents per KWH during the time of heaviest demand.

And that's for the whole house air conditioning included, not just for the car.

Clearly that’s not rip off California

 

[Leafdriver333]

$0.08 / kwh all day.

 

[whatthe2]

$0.12 /kwh regardless of time of day