katieandbrian
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- Jun 2, 2013
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Okay, so here's the deal. Got my awesome leaf a couple of months ago and got super-excited/over-zealous with my research and reading. We drive about 45 miles round trip a day, so I figured we haadddd to have a 240/30amp capability. Went ahead and got an electrician to install an outlet that would fit the EVSEUPGRADE.COM's upgrade to my stock unit. Long story short, electrician screwed up, wired the supplemental 120v outlet at 240 as well, I was plugging into the 120 before I knew it was too hot and before I got my evse upgraded. Sent it in and got a call about how it's circuit is fried. Totally bummed. It's been a bad day. To replace the stock unit, it will cost me about 400 more dollars from them, 700 more to get a new upgraded unit.
So, I normally charge at a free BLINK near my work and made due with about 5 home charges total in 6 weeks with the 120. It was a lot of work planning the BLINK charging, but not too bad. Kind of fun and relaxing in fact.
Then last night...
I went out with my wife about .5 miles from my house to get some coffee and knew there were some chargepoint stations nearby the place we were going to, so we drove and figured we'd get some charge out of it. I come back and we pulled about 10kw in 90 minutes (typical). The total charge cost was $.37. Yeah, that's 37 cents. I thought it was a glitch as I assumed it was 1 dollar for the first hour and whatever fraction of the following hours. Should have cost about $1.50. So, I call up chargepoint today and find out that these stations (that are on the street with free parking utnil 3am for EVs) are $.25/hour from 8:30pm to 3am.
I'm extremely excited about this for a couple of reasons. As you all know, Blink has rolled out the (ridiculous) $5.00 per charge for DCQC structure recently, so some of my area options are now limited for free power.
Math:
I pulled 9.678kWh from the station over the course of 1:29:33. I don't think I received 100% of that, but it comes out to drawing 6.49kWh/hour (I have the 6.6 onboard option). This cost me .37 which comes out to $.026/kWh.
According to my math, this is substantially less than anywhere off the grid. Last month I averaged $.14/kWh in California.
So, is this correct? If so, how is this profitable? Did I just find my solution to my cluster-f of a home-charging situation? Can I just plug in from 8:30-10 every night to top up to 65% and be done with it for mere cents? Too good to be true? Would love your thoughts!
So, I normally charge at a free BLINK near my work and made due with about 5 home charges total in 6 weeks with the 120. It was a lot of work planning the BLINK charging, but not too bad. Kind of fun and relaxing in fact.
Then last night...
I went out with my wife about .5 miles from my house to get some coffee and knew there were some chargepoint stations nearby the place we were going to, so we drove and figured we'd get some charge out of it. I come back and we pulled about 10kw in 90 minutes (typical). The total charge cost was $.37. Yeah, that's 37 cents. I thought it was a glitch as I assumed it was 1 dollar for the first hour and whatever fraction of the following hours. Should have cost about $1.50. So, I call up chargepoint today and find out that these stations (that are on the street with free parking utnil 3am for EVs) are $.25/hour from 8:30pm to 3am.
I'm extremely excited about this for a couple of reasons. As you all know, Blink has rolled out the (ridiculous) $5.00 per charge for DCQC structure recently, so some of my area options are now limited for free power.
Math:
I pulled 9.678kWh from the station over the course of 1:29:33. I don't think I received 100% of that, but it comes out to drawing 6.49kWh/hour (I have the 6.6 onboard option). This cost me .37 which comes out to $.026/kWh.
According to my math, this is substantially less than anywhere off the grid. Last month I averaged $.14/kWh in California.
So, is this correct? If so, how is this profitable? Did I just find my solution to my cluster-f of a home-charging situation? Can I just plug in from 8:30-10 every night to top up to 65% and be done with it for mere cents? Too good to be true? Would love your thoughts!