Tesla Supercharger Price Increase Central FL

[Mark813]

Not sure if this has happened everywhere but Tesla has raise the price of charging in Central Florida where I live.

Previously they typically had two tiers 38 cents kwh during peak hours and 21 cents kwh from 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

They are still at 38 cents for peak regular daytime hours but now it is 31 cents for non peak before 8am.

And it's not clear in the app but there's a 34 cents kwh somewhere in there as well. I assume after 9pm or 12am to 4am. It used to be clear in the app what the price was by time now it's overlaid with some expected usage/busyness bar graph.

Don't know when this changed but I noticed I paid $.31/kwh around 7am yesterday. Also, these are membership rates, add about 5 cents kwh for non member.

Checked a bunch of locations in the app north and south of Tampa as well as out to Orlando. The prices are pretty uniform now whereas it used to be different discounts at different locations.

I'm going look at the rates for non-member and see if it's still worth paying the $12.99 a month. Since I have so many Tesla superchargers near me I use them plus my 120v home charging. This was working well with 15 cents kwh rates at home and 21 cents at Tesla, now I'm going to have to install the 240v charger. Moving soon so this is fine timing.

I'm curious if this price increase happened elsewhere around the US?

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[RickMachE]

I would be careful stating there was a price increase everywhere. Looks like they tweaked a few locations.

Tampa -

West Swann Ave, shows 21 cents from 4AM to 8AM, then 39 cents, then 21 cents from midnight.

North 50th Street shows 27 cents to 11AM, then 39 cents, then 21 cents from midnight.

North Dale Mabry Highway has different pricing, with congestion fees. That location is confusing even on the website. West Gandy Blvd shows similar confusing prices.

 

[Mark813]

I would be careful stating there was a price increase everywhere. Looks like they tweaked a few locations.

Tampa -

West Swann Ave, shows 21 cents from 4AM to 8AM, then 39 cents, then 21 cents from midnight.

North 50th Street shows 27 cents to 11AM, then 39 cents, then 21 cents from midnight.

North Dale Mabry Highway has different pricing, with congestion fees. That location is confusing even on the website. West Gandy Blvd shows similar confusing prices.

I know that West Swan is Tesla only (V2), not sure about the others you mentioned. They may have different pricing at the Tesla only sites.

But yes the new graph of pricing is confusing it used to be showing time and price more clearly.

My prices come from the Tesla app logged in checking all the locations that let non Tesla's charge with the adapter.

North of Tampa to about Ocala Gainesville and South down to Sarasota Venice and out east towards Orlando is just the peruse I did. But most adapter locations seem to be uniform with the new 31 cents off peak.

If I find any adapter locations that kept the 21 cents kwh off peak I will update.

They kept the 38 cents kwh peak and raised the non peak from 21 cents to 31 cents at all the adapter locations I checked around central Florida. I was curious if anyone had seen similar increases.

Either way I try to charge at dcfc locations that are under 40 cents to keep it at "gas price party". Based on my "unofficial calculation" of my previous RAV4's 12 gallon gas tank, it used to cost $36 to fill at $3 gallon. To fill the 91kw from zero battery would be around $36 at 40 cents kwh.

Although gas is below $3 gallon in central Florida lately, I don't miss ice vehicles.

 

[RickMachE]

And your home charging would be around 10 to 12 cents...

 

[grein002]

Yep, I am planning a trip to FL end of year and was looking at rates a few days ago. Winter Haven has site on 3rd street, and it was broken down into two rates, 0.21 off peak and maybe .38 peak? Now it is by congestion, not time, and the tiers are 0.31, 0.34 and 0.38

50% increase in the base rate - thanks, Elon!!

 

[grein002]

Gotta pay for that Trillion dollar pay package somehow...

 

[Mark813]

Yep, I am planning a trip to FL end of year and was looking at rates a few days ago. Winter Haven has site on 3rd street, and it was broken down into two rates, 0.21 off peak and maybe .38 peak? Now it is by congestion, not time, and the tiers are 0.31, 0.34 and 0.38

50% increase in the base rate - thanks, Elon!!

Interesting, when I look at the chart in your post and in my Tampa locations, there's not really a discount in the mornings anymore between 4am and 8am.

I charged this morning about 7:30 which would have been 21 cents last month or 31 cents under the new rates but congestion puts it to 34 cents.

Even under the old pricing the morning congestion would have put it at a higher rate than 21 cents between 4am and 8am

Not willing to get up at 3am to save another 4 cents. Gonna put some math to the $12.99 monthly fee here but the obvious answer is to pay for the 240v install for full home charging.

 

[RickMachE]

Umm, you should have done the monthly membership a long time ago...

$12.99 / .08 (smallest discount I ever saw, usually higher) = 162kWh. That should be at most 2.X sessions.

And yes, home charging is the way to go.

 

[Mark813]

Umm, you should have done the monthly membership a long time ago...

$12.99 / .08 (smallest discount I ever saw, usually higher) = 162kWh. That should be at most 2.X sessions.

And yes, home charging is the way to go.

Sorry, to clarify I've been on the monthly membership since I purchased my MME last year. There are two supercharger stations about 8 minutes away in different directions from me.

I've been charging once or twice a week with all the driving I do. Even without the discount the old off peak 28 cents rate was a good discount from the 42 cents peak rate and easy if you had to get up early for work anyway.

But I'm moving in February so I I didn't pay for the 240v install at this location. Hindsight 20/20 but a $1000 for a simple14-50 outlet install would have paid for itself over a year at the home rates 12 cents kwh.

 

[Mark813]

Ok finally deciphered the new chart for Tesla congestion pricing. There is no more time of use pricing in the locations by me that let non Tesla's charge.

The underlying dark gray graph showingTesla supercharging pricing is showing expected usage based on time and what it "could" cost.

In real time it is based on current number of chargers in use. So the 31 cents kwh estimated at 3am could be 38 cents kwh if 8 out of 10 chargers are in use.

Checking prices today it changed from 38 cents to 31 cents and back to 34 cents all within the same hour. The 7 cents difference is not much of a discount either way

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