My real world cost for charging the TM3 at home. I signed up for PG&E EV Rate and was able to adjust some of our usages to take advantage of the off-peak and partial-peak. The saving is more than I has expected.
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My Real World Electrical Cost for Charging TM3 at Home
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My real world cost for charging the TM3 at home. I signed up for PG&E EV Rate and was able to adjust some of our usages to take advantage of the off-peak and partial-peak. The saving is more than I has expected.
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Yeah there’s definitely potential hidden savings in switching to the EV rate if you can also switch some other usage to off-peak. It's especially advantageous for people, like us, who already have most of their energy usage during off hours or weekends, but have been too lazy to look into changing to a time-of-use plan.
Our costs are 25% of gas (compared to a 27 mpg/91 octane car, as I mentioned in another thread) but if we instead calculate using how much our electric bill has actually changed after switching to the EV rate and doing laundry/dishwasher off-peak, it’s more like ~10% of gas.
Our costs are 25% of gas (compared to a 27 mpg/91 octane car, as I mentioned in another thread) but if we instead calculate using how much our electric bill has actually changed after switching to the EV rate and doing laundry/dishwasher off-peak, it’s more like ~10% of gas.
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The $129.60 is the total bill, subtract that with my 12 month average of 104.24 to get to what I pay to charge my car based on how much I used to pay with out EV. I using this to show the wallet impact of the EV. Then divided by the mile driven.
(Total Bill - Avg Bill wo/EV) / total mile
(129.60 - 104.24)/1435 = 0.017
I think this a simple way to show how EV and our change in habit impact our budge. It not really the true cost per mile for TM3.
That exactly why I calculated the $/mile base on our past usage. We made a chart that shows when the peak, off peak and partial-peak rates and post it in the kitchen. We are using this to time when to do laundry and it really help.
