[cwerdna]

Nothing. I almost never charge at home due to Pacific Gouge & Extort. Almost all my charging is for free from L2 at work.

PG&E is so expensive, so that besides a couple free L2 EVSEs ~6 miles from home, I can DC fast charge for cheaper than the cheapest marginal rate on their EV plan (EV2-A) which I'm not on anyway. It's 19 cents per kWh vs. over 24 cents.

I had the L1 120 volt EVSE that my former '19 Bolt came with. Went back when the car was bought back. My '22 Niro EV has a L1 120 volt EVSE as well. I think I've used it once or twice. Once was to top off the car to 100% due to a road trip, so I didn't put in much juice.

 

[cwerdna]

I almost did a spit-take reading that. How can they possibly justify that rate? I pay 10 cents for regular off cycle charging, and the EV plan is only 3 cents per KWH ( but requires their $750 charger).

Currently I'm using the included charger. I'm considering the utility EV plan, but the break-even point is so far out.

It's because it's Pacific Gouge & Extort and the CPUC allowing them.

Current EV plan for those w/o a separate meter for their EVSE only is EV2-A. See page 2 of https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHEDS_EV2 (Sch).pdf. It's 24.7 cents per kWh at the cheapest. Rest of day is 41.5 to 56 cents per kWh, depending on when.

Since I don't charge at home, I'm on E-TOU-C, see page 2 of https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHEDS_E-TOU-C.pdf. Basically, each kWh within your baseline (roughly 300 kWh per 30 day billing month for my area) gets the 9 cent per kWh credit. Anything beyond baseline doesn't. Since charging an EV at home would for sure push me beyond baseline, marginal cost of each kWh to charge an EV at home at the cheapest times would be 37.4 or 42.5 cents per kWh.