• @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    You can get time of use billing at home with many power companies. Only makes sense if you have solar panels or storage batteries or some such.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      I have real time pricing from my utility. It works out well because we charge 2 electric cars overnight for a fraction of what they would cost to charge at the standard fixed kilowatt-hour rate. My house is heated by natural gas; I don’t think the savings would be there if I also was heating my house with electricity as I live in the midwest, where it gets cold as fuck for the winter.

    • @AbidanYre
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      411 months ago

      My Volt (and I assume other EVs) has a setting to charge when power is cheaper.