Lowest Annual Fuel Cost

My electricity provider Con Ed pay me 10 C a kWh as long I plug my car from 12 to 8 am as I have solar my bill for electricity is $0 as I retired to bad I don’t drive 50000 miles a year like I did for years but NY have few EV cars compare to West Coast and NY can afford free money for EV drivers to bankrupt a city on top of this if is snowing here I’m only one crazy to clean my solar panels from snow to get the most of it as my house aloud to do it simple way with bc is low roof.

 

Lol I just noticed that the table representative values of NRCan’s official 2023 new vehicle consumption ratings was last updated the week before the unprovoked Russian aggression began. There are some pretty unreasonably low “estimated annual fuel cost” ratings now!

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy-efficiency/transportation-alternative-fuels/personal-vehicles/choosing-right-vehicle/buying-electric-vehicle/understanding-the-tables/21383

 

Can't believe how cheap electricity is in other parts of the country. It's quite expensive in southern California. Brother can you spare a dime?
https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Time-Of-Use-Residential-Rate-Plans
Luckily I don't have to drive very much or I'd be looking into solar.

 

I’d love to go solar but because our electricity up here isn’t from thermal sources (99.7% renewables), there are ZERO incentives or rebates from the utility. Even grid-tied solar only pays back in statement credits up to 100% of normal consumption (KWh-for-KWh).

 

We have a 6kw solar system on our roof and we only charge during the day and days when sunny where possible.
We've only had our SE since January but total cost to recharge has been around Aussie $30 for nearly 4000km of driving (US$21 for 2500Miles).
We actually had a very wet overcast summer, I think we would be at $0 if we had our usual sunny weather we get most of the time.
Luckily, solar still generates power even on a cloudy day.
Feeling pretty happy about going electric

 

Did you derate your EVSE to accommodate for the AC inverter? I'd imagine you would your DC/AC ratio is 1.2 on a 5kW AC inverter.

 

I’m shocked you didn’t question “we had a wet overcast summer.”

 

Well it's a little more complicated depending if you are in a net metering or net billing situation for solar PV. With a 6kW north facing system, it should be able to pull 2-3kW peak during wet overcast.

 

Summer in Australia. December to February. [facepalm]

 

Our mini is set to accept max charge and I guess its software regulates incoming charge.
We actually charge with the ac charger that came with the car. It charges at 8amps on our 240v system, so very sloooow charge rate.
So the power is generated by our solar panels, converted to ac by the inverter, then converted by the car charger back to dc (I believe).
Electricity is confusing for us dummies!

 

Yeh more like October to April here . We live in Brisbane, so similar latitude to Florida, just in the other hemisphere. Month after month of long hot sunny days. Even in (what we laughingly refer to as) winter we harvest plenty of sunlight.

 

Lions (premium reserved seat) member here! I know Brissie weather well.

 

That is still 133% faster than 12A @ 120V Level 1 granny charging!

 

Time we had another 3inarow! A lot of travel from Quebec to sit in that seat isn't it?

 

Yes for sure. I guess you have a hard wired fast charger?
I bought a 15 amp charger so that will speed things up. Just waiting for a sparky to run a 15amp circuit to our garage.

 

I took advantage of some EVSE rebates but the requirement was hardwire. My charger is derated from 32A to 20A so solar PV + battery energy is always available.

 

Still waiting to find out if my Roulez-vert EVSE rebate will be approved, four weeks since I sent in the docs. I really should try to sell the BMW Flex charger.