Off Peak Charging

[GraemeI]

Hi,
Does anyone no how or if it is possible to setup off peak charging. My energy supplier has a peak time from 3pm to 9pm. So I would like to charge my Tesla any time outside of these hours. Is this possible to do.
Cheers
Graeme

 

[ucmndd]

Exactly what you’re asking for (charge any time except these hours) is not possible.

Best you can do is set a scheduled charging time of 9pm or later.

 

[GraemeI]

Yea OK thought as much.
Thank you

 

[azmodls]

As mentioned, their is no way to do it in the Tesla charging menus. But there are apps that can do this, like optiwatt.

 

[GraemeI]

Thanks I will give that a try.

 

[ev-now]

How can it possibly be that Tesla can manage FSD, but not provide an option to avoid Peak Demand charging tariffs. Even our 2016 Kia Soul EV can do that

 

[ucmndd]

How can it possibly be that Tesla can manage FSD, but not provide an option to avoid Peak Demand charging tariffs. Even our 2016 Kia Soul EV can do that

I imagine because it’s a solved problem for 99.99% of customers, so it’s not a development priority. I have a 3-tier TOU plan - for 5 years now, “scheduled charging after off-peak starts” has worked just fine.

 

[ev-now]

I imagine because it’s a solved problem for 99.99% of customers, so it’s not a development priority. I have a 3-tier TOU plan - for 5 years now, “scheduled charging after off-peak starts” has worked just fine.

Not sure that does solve it 99.99% but I am pleased it's not an inconvenience to you. For my wife's use it's a PITA.

 

[ucmndd]

Not sure that does solve it 99.99% but I am pleased it's not an inconvenience to you. For my wife's use it's a PITA.

What’s the rate plan and use case? Genuinely curious

 

[ATXMD]

Resurrecting this thread, because I am just remembering how stupid this is... I live in Austin, (Elon's new home town) and have EV360 - a program which is flat rate $30 if you charge between 7 pm and 2 pm - you pay premium rates if you charge between 2pm and 7pm - so we have a single "peak" period. My Taycan lets me schedule a preferred charging window (set to 7 pm to 2 pm) and a "minimum charge". So it will charge to the minimum at any time of day, and the remainder of the way during my preferred times. Simple.

My *Tesla* roof lets me set an arbitrary number of peak times and levels to maximize cost savings / payment for sending power back to the grid, using exactly the same app that I use for my car.

Either of these implementations are fine. Basically what I want for my wife's Model X - Charge fully as soon as I plug it in during off peak, otherwise, don't. Or even better - otherwise, make sure I have some charge (charge any time) and charge the rest of the way during off peak. It's a simple request. She doesn't have some set time that she goes out, or returns, so "departure time" is worthless - I want it to charge when I plug it in, not at some arbitrary time in the future, and I don't want to set start time to 7 pm, since, if I plug it in at 10 am (when I want it to charge), it says it will wait until 7 to charge. Crazy.

So right now, she plugs it in when she gets home, unless it's after 2 pm and before 7. If it's during that window, she sets an Alexa alarm. The coding for this is simple, and they *already have a solution*. So why not allow us to set that schedule?

 

[COS Blue]

As someone who just started using "scheduled departure," I totally agree the solution is half-baked. And I completely agree with the above suggestion -- wouldn't even be that hard to code it.