I'm about to purchase a Model 3 this next month after my lease expires but have hit a roadblock with some research into the electric rate plans offered by PG&E in California. We live in a rural area with most of our heating etc on electric so have a high overall consumption but also a fairly large solar array. Using the rate calculator it estimates that our current bill would be about $645 for the year under the E-TOU-A standard time of use plan after accounting for the solar net metering.
However, switching over to an EV charging plan EV2-A appears to decrease the amount of time that solar production is being credited to the account at higher tier levels, leading to a bill increase to $1255 per year assuming unchanged consumption patterns.
So here's where it gets bad. I will need to drive a lot, and using the PG&E rate simulator and adding in some moderate cost shifting (ie trying to do more laundry off peak etc) as well as the 20k miles of driving a year that would need home charging the cheapest plan goes to E-TOU-B at $2175 per year, and the EV2-A is up to $2,565 per year. That's $1920 extra in electricity per year at a minimum if I were to get a Tesla, or $160 per month. That's about the same that I spend on gas right now.
Is there something I'm missing? Where are these cost savings that I was hoping to see with a Tesla, or do they now go away with the forced change to the EV2-A rate plan as of July 1?
However, switching over to an EV charging plan EV2-A appears to decrease the amount of time that solar production is being credited to the account at higher tier levels, leading to a bill increase to $1255 per year assuming unchanged consumption patterns.
So here's where it gets bad. I will need to drive a lot, and using the PG&E rate simulator and adding in some moderate cost shifting (ie trying to do more laundry off peak etc) as well as the 20k miles of driving a year that would need home charging the cheapest plan goes to E-TOU-B at $2175 per year, and the EV2-A is up to $2,565 per year. That's $1920 extra in electricity per year at a minimum if I were to get a Tesla, or $160 per month. That's about the same that I spend on gas right now.
Is there something I'm missing? Where are these cost savings that I was hoping to see with a Tesla, or do they now go away with the forced change to the EV2-A rate plan as of July 1?