thesmokingman
Active Member
Ah that's not true, my car charges same night I plug it in. It's set to charge from 12am to 8am. Reading the quoted again, were you meaning if you plugged in past a scheduled start time?The problem is that if you then plug in at 8 pm, it will wait 23 hours to start charging. One has to explicitly tell the car to start charging.
Our Volt has a MUCH more sophisticated setup. You can basically program in the entire TOU schedule taking into account peak/part peak/off peak, weekday/weekend, and summer/winter times and dates. The car will automatically optimize for lowest cost and having it ready for you at your desired departure time. GM did a good job on it.
And it doesn't need to know the price or cost structure, you just set it to your off peak time. Also the Tesla app will take whatever cost structure you input, TOU or whatever and it will spit out costs and statistics. But again the only important block is the off peak block, that's the only crucial info really.
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