I do not. Which is why I don't bother trying to track solar production with regards to what it costs to charge my car at night, when there is no solar production.
I don't personally have any experience, but the contractor who installed my solar and Emporia charger said they had installed several of those, but mine was the first Emporia charger they had installed.
BC Hydro has great rates. The OP will never see anything like that in Kentucky. I live in Seattle, where most of the electricity is generated by hydroelectric. Just outside Seattle the rates go up significantly. My rates are $0.1338/kWh + $14.60 base charge. They have a time of use plan that doesn't look very good to me. The TOU rates are:
Don’t you regret your purchase. I have a Mach E and An F-150 Lightning and my monthly bill for both of the averages around $50-$60. It has been consistent for the last 4 years. Yes my bill goes up in the summer due to the A/C usage, even if you have an efficient A/C system.
Don’t regret your purchase.
If you have batteries for your solar, you would still use solar generated power if charged at night. Of course, our house has panels but not the battery currently, so we don't have that ability currently. So, if you don't have the batteries you aren't saving what you generate. Of course, you can always look at it as what you generated during the day balanced out what you used to charge at night.
Here’s my charging info.
Then there's no way for your electric bill to go up that much due to you adding an electric car. Your AC may be running twice as much as last year. You might need to get your AC checked.
I would agree with that. At 15 cents/kWh, if OP did truly increase their bill 175 dollars for their EV only, that's 1167 kWh increase in usage. Getting 3.35 miles/hWh charge (which is what my wife and I are currently getting, averaged between the two of us), that's 3909 miles of charge. I mean, it's possible one could be driving that much, that's about 46k miles in a year, but that doesn't sound like the case from the original post. Although, note, if you had the average MPG vehicle most Americans have right now, you'd be getting 25.5 miles per gallon, and 3909 miles in a month would be 153 gallons of gas, or 536 dollars at 3.5 a gallon.
Yes, I have the Emporia Vue and the Emporia Charger too. Great combination. I got the 16 circuit monitoring, and managed to squeeze all 16 into my breaker box. I also bought a couple of extra Emporia Smart Plugs for the office computers and TV so that I could monitor them separately, they are the only meaningful draw on their circuits so that freed up some of the 16 original circuit transformers for other circuits. It's wonderful data to have. Plus, you can run the 'excess solar' algorithm to try to charge your car only from solar.
" Got a new 2025 Mach E GTPE less than 2 months ago. I have a 40 amp home charger. Wife drives one way to work 16 miles, then other daily driving but not much. Our power bill went up $176 from last month. Also compared to the same month last year it was almost doubled. I see all these post about how much money people are saving with an EV, some say their electric bill didn’t even go up. We went from loving this car to regretting our purchase."
Absolutely correct. On both counts.
I don't have batteries. And even if I did, I probably would not try to charge the car from the battery bank, or run large household loads (heatpump HVAC, electric oven, or heatpump water heater) from the battery overnight. I also only have a small 5 kW array, and most of the time I'm not at home when the sun is shining, so I have little opportunity to charge at home while the sun is shining.
They aren't getting 0.5 cents per kWh. They are getting 5 cents a kWh. $0.05 is the same as 5 cents.
