I’m with Ovo (SA) and use the EV plan. I only charge during 11am - 2pm and haven’t spent a cent on charging the car since I joined. Peak rates (54c kWh) and daily supply charge (148c) are high, but the free charging/3 hour free window to go nuts with charging/washing machine/dishwasher/AC and 8c kWh from 12-6am make up for it (usually sleep with the air on during summer/spring).
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Australian Model 3 Highland experiences, tips, tricks
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Yeah Ill re-run the maths again but as I’m generally at work during the day so can’t charge the car during the day paying the extra during peak and service charge when I am home doesn’t seem to make it worthwhile.
I’ll rerun it tho now I know my usage at 8c from 12-6am (it’s 1am-6am with AGL) and see if I need a referral
Given up hope that the Gubberment will actually do anything anytime they say they will look into power pricing in SA, every time they do either nothing happens or it goes up.. More tax i guess...Yeah I did look at their ev plan but they jack everything else up as you mentioned.
Solar seems to be the go, try and do everything while the sun is up
It will vary by a few PSI as the temperature changes. As you drive, they'll heat up as well.
If you maintain the recommended 42psi cold, you'll find you need to top them up around this time of year when the mornings first turn cold, then probably once more later in winter.
Changed to AGL night saver EV and will roll with it.
The ovo plan would work if I was home during the day.
Interestingly when they changed my plan over it must be retrospective and with 2 days left in this billing cycle by bill went down by $35 haha
Also the EV plan is midnight to 6am as opposed to off peak which is 1am to 6 am so I shouldn’t have any issues keeping charged.
The ovo plan would work if I was home during the day.
Interestingly when they changed my plan over it must be retrospective and with 2 days left in this billing cycle by bill went down by $35 haha
Also the EV plan is midnight to 6am as opposed to off peak which is 1am to 6 am so I shouldn’t have any issues keeping charged.
Picking the right electricity plan is a somewhat painful exercise in spreadsheeting. And of course assumes that your future usage profiles will be similar to your past usage profiles, which might or might not pan out that way.
Because I have a relatively small solar array and battery (hence don’t export a lot of solar - even less now with Charge on Solar
) the dominant factors for me to minimise annual costs are (1) low offpeak rate and (2) low daily connection fee. Less than 5% of my grid usage is at peak, so I almost don’t care what the peak rate is (for me it’s currently 60c/kWh), and neither do I care what the FIT is (2c/kWh).
It’s time for me to do my annual plan comparison and I’m seriously considering Amber. Their quote was that I would actually make money every year, primarily because I have a battery so could discharge some power to the grid at peak times. I’m currently paying about $1700 p.a. so that almost seems too good to be true! Ovo is another to consider.
It’s getting harder and harder to get good plans from the majors and I absolutely hate dealing with them. They almost always screw something up.
Because I have a relatively small solar array and battery (hence don’t export a lot of solar - even less now with Charge on Solar
) the dominant factors for me to minimise annual costs are (1) low offpeak rate and (2) low daily connection fee. Less than 5% of my grid usage is at peak, so I almost don’t care what the peak rate is (for me it’s currently 60c/kWh), and neither do I care what the FIT is (2c/kWh).It’s time for me to do my annual plan comparison and I’m seriously considering Amber. Their quote was that I would actually make money every year, primarily because I have a battery so could discharge some power to the grid at peak times. I’m currently paying about $1700 p.a. so that almost seems too good to be true! Ovo is another to consider.
It’s getting harder and harder to get good plans from the majors and I absolutely hate dealing with them. They almost always screw something up.
Should also be able to shift your washing machine and dish washer to run in that window - most of them now have a timer / delayed start option.
Hi - I'm a new owner and am looking for help with 2 questions please...
#1 - re "Cabin Overheat Protection" - I have it turned on since I bought it as I usually park in the driveway without much overhead shade. How much battery do you reckon it should consume every day? I've noticed that the battery has depleted about 2% since yesterday whilst it's been parked. Is it normal or is there another setting I should be looking at as well?
#2 - the various EV charging plans on offer from electricity providers. A bit of a naive question - but how do they know that someone is charging an EV as opposed to running a washing machine for example during those times?
Thanks in advance
#1 - re "Cabin Overheat Protection" - I have it turned on since I bought it as I usually park in the driveway without much overhead shade. How much battery do you reckon it should consume every day? I've noticed that the battery has depleted about 2% since yesterday whilst it's been parked. Is it normal or is there another setting I should be looking at as well?
#2 - the various EV charging plans on offer from electricity providers. A bit of a naive question - but how do they know that someone is charging an EV as opposed to running a washing machine for example during those times?
Thanks in advance
It depends a lot on the weather. If it's really hot with a lot of sun, that'll use a lot - if it's 18C and cloudy it'll use basically nothing.
2% sounds about right. I have cabin overhead protection on all the time, usually park the car under a carport and don't really notice any significant use from it.
Mostly, they don't, and for the most part they don't care. With for example Red, as long as you show them you have an EV registered at the address you can get the plan and use electricity for whatever purpose you want in the free period.
One of them - I think Origin maybe? - couples the plan with a charger they supply and you only get the electricity use the charger reports for free.
I find Amber a little complicated - I'm trying to understand it a bit more. I guess need to sit down with it and work out my specific use case and how the automation (charge on solar etc) might work with it.Picking the right electricity plan is a somewhat painful exercise in spreadsheeting. And of course assumes that your future usage profiles will be similar to your past usage profiles, which might or might not pan out that way.
Because I have a relatively small solar array and battery (hence don’t export a lot of solar - even less now with Charge on Solar
It’s time for me to do my annual plan comparison and I’m seriously considering Amber. Their quote was that I would actually make money every year, primarily because I have a battery so could discharge some power to the grid at peak times. I’m currently paying about $1700 p.a. so that almost seems too good to be true! Ovo is another to consider.
It’s getting harder and harder to get good plans from the majors and I absolutely hate dealing with them. They almost always screw something up.
I did do a video showing how it all works -
For me it's fantastic, haven't paid a bill since I joined, earning decent amounts every month even when we've had pretty bad weather and little solar. Often getting 30+c/kWh arbitrage just buying and selling power, especially when it goes negative.
Ovo has been good to me since switching from Red Energy. This was my usage from March with using the 11-2 charging time mostly but have used the 12-6am 8c a few times too. I could save another 5% if I enable bill smoothing but with that you would need to prepay and I prefer postpay.
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