What it cost me to charge my Model 3 per month in Illinois.

[chrisf60526]

If you are curious what it costs to charge a M3, it costs me about $30/mo in electric costs here in Illinois. My car is 25 months old and we drive about 910 miles per month based on the odometer reading.

My average cost for electricity is 6.62c / kWh over the last 12 months under ComEd's Hourly pricing plan. We pretty much use the car, come home, plug it in and charge it at night.

If you compare that to the A6 i replaced, it costs my about $84 to fill that car up at today's premium gas prices.

Pretty happy with that.

 

[Ryan Autry]

$0.06/kWh is a really great price.


Here is what I pay...

 

[RayK]

$0.06/kWh is a really great price.

Sure, but you're still in Chicago :

 

[Gauss Guzzler]

Yeah 7 cents is about half of the national average but the OP also seems to get significant gas subsidies.
910 miles at a very optimistic 29mpg would be 31 gallons of premium at $2.70/gal.

Bargains aside, OP's point still holds true for most of us as the cost to run an EV generally tends to be 1/3 or 1/4 that of a fossil car.

 

[chrisf60526]

Sure, but you're still in Chicago :

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LOL. Yeah, and those temps arent even that bad.

@ryanautry...yep, about the only thing not overpriced here is water and electricity. I even get charged an $100 for owning an EV since IL doesn't get that tax rev. You guys are in California...you know how it goes. :_

 

[RayK]

CA is also tagging on an EV surcharge to our annual renewal.

edit: California starts charging EV registration fees up to $175 in July

 

[Gauss Guzzler]

Yeah, our CA registration fees are $50/month higher for the Model 3 than the fossil Lexus. Kinda negating much of the energy savings, although only $8.50/month of that is actually a direct EV tax. Here's my 2022 registration renewal fee breakdown:

$62.00 Current Registration (base fee)
$29.00 Current California Highway Patrol
$341.00 Current Vehicle License Fee (0.65% of the car's perceived $52,400 estimated current value)
$1.00 Current County Service Authority For Freeway Emergencies Fee
$1.00 Current Fingerprint ID Fee
$1.00 Current Auto Theft And/Or DUI Crime Deterrence Program
$6.00 Current Air Quality Management District
$3.00 Alt Fuel/Tech Reg Fee (applies to all cars, fossil or otherwise)
$102.00 Road Improvement Fee (flat fee for any car built after 2019 that "doesn't directly produce significant air pollution")
$168.00 Current Transportation Improvement Fee (flat fee based on car value being between $35K - $60K)

 

[jrweiss98020]

WA charges $250 extra for yearly tabs for an EV, and $75 for a hybrid.

OTOH, electricity is 10.3¢/kWh, when I'm not generating my own. That's just about 1/4 the cost of my former car at 30 mpg and $3/gal.

 

[SpaceKat]

If you are curious what it costs to charge a M3, it costs me about $30/mo in electric costs here in Illinois. My car is 25 months old and we drive about 910 miles per month based on the odometer reading.

My average cost for electricity is 6.62c / kWh over the last 12 months under ComEd's Hourly pricing plan. We pretty much use the car, come home, plug it in and charge it at night.

I am also in Illinois. I picked up my RWD a couple of weeks ago (yay!). My apartment building will allow me to charge in the garage on a 110V, albeit at a higher price than you are paying per KWh--I don't think their facility plan is hourly.

I use Arcadia for my apartment's electricity usage. For around $5 a month extra, it guarantees that my power comes from wind and solar. Well, technically, it forces ComEd to buy power from a wind or solar farm if those farms are generating power, guaranteeing the farms can sell power to the grid. I'm willing to pay a few extra bucks a month to make my power cleaner -- Illinois' power mix is not very green, alas. I should add that the $5 a month extra is reduced as time goes by because of solar savings. On my last bill, I paid just $1.25 extra for Arcadia.

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[smartypnz]

3 cents a mile is what I averaged from Supercharging on my 11,000 mile 48 state US trip last year. Couldn't get to Alaska or Hawaii in the M3.
Been hard to measure home charging cost with the home setup.

 

[KenC]

If you are curious what it costs to charge a M3, it costs me about $30/mo in electric costs here in Illinois. My car is 25 months old and we drive about 910 miles per month based on the odometer reading.

My average cost for electricity is 6.62c / kWh over the last 12 months under ComEd's Hourly pricing plan. We pretty much use the car, come home, plug it in and charge it at night.

If you compare that to the A6 i replaced, it costs my about $84 to fill that car up at today's premium gas prices.

Pretty happy with that.


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Are you including "transport" costs for your electricity? My electric supply is also under 7c, but my transport cost is also 7c, so 14c total.

 

[TSteve]

Are you including "transport" costs for your electricity? My electric supply is also under 7c, but my transport cost is also 7c, so 14c total.

I'm also in IL and that's what it works out for me also (14c). I'm not on hourly pricing though.

 

[chrisf60526]

If you are in IL, you should consider ComEd hourly pricing. The graph in my OP I straight from ComEd. I've been on the program for 20 months and here are my savings. My car charges at night 99% of the time in the late night anyway so it works for me.

 

[HostileHarry]

I'm on Comed's Hourly pricing as well, and I do not see how you're paying 0.06... You need to include the supply and delivery costs, which tpyically averages out between 0.10 to 0.13 per kWh.

Last month (12/6 to 1/7) I used 2281 kWh (2x Tesla's use lots of juice)
Supply: $125.45
Delivery: $106.26
Total: $267.16 OR $0.12 per kWh.

The Capacity Charge under the Supply charges is what really frustrates me...

 

[chrisf60526]

I'm on Comed's Hourly pricing as well, and I do not see how you're paying 0.06... You need to include the supply and delivery costs, which tpyically averages out between 0.10 to 0.13 per kWh.

Last month (12/6 to 1/7) I used 2281 kWh (2x Tesla's use lots of juice)
Supply: $125.45
Delivery: $106.26
Total: $267.16 OR $0.12 per kWh.

The Capacity Charge under the Supply charges is what really frustrates me...

That's fair and you are probably correct. My stats from one M3 is I used 565 kWh during the month of January. So, about .12. My graph above does say supply charge. I get what you are saying and I was referencing the fact that with supply charge and an average rate of around .6, 12-13 sounds right.