EV charging at the Mall

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wurm wrote:
Another quick question for those doing almost all of your charging at home. I know it's all dependent on the area of the country in which you live, but on average how much have you seen your monthly electric bill increase?

And those of you fortunate enough to already be totally off-the-grid, no need to rub it in.

It really depends now how much you drive and where do you charge. My wife charged for free at work so during Summer days she rarely charged at home. or if she did, the Volt used only about 5-8 kWh since the battery was rarely fully empty.

So worst case would be 250 kWh per month and 1kWs is $0.185 here (flat rate, no discount at night with my plan) so I guess that would come to $46 per month. In reality it was probably $30 per month.

Now imagine a car with ICE would use about 30 gallons per month so that would have been around $90.

Really charing at home is about 1/2 the cost of gas given the price of gas and price of kWh here. My friend with 2 Teslas came out with similar figures.