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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Please tell us about the economics of charging your car. Unfortunately few people will talk about the electrical cost of charging that allows you to drive say 200 miles
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I'll try to answer your question but please understand that I don't drive an electric car for what I save on electricity. I drive it for #1 performance (it can accelerate to 60 mph in under 2 seconds. I don't drive fast but there are times when that power comes in handy) # 2 the environment.
According to my Tesla App I charge at my house 70% of the time, 3% at Tesla Superchargers, 6% at my office and 21% at my vacation house. I pay $0.15 per kWh everywhere except the Tesla Supercharger, I pay $0.44 per kWh there. I believe a full charge would be 116kWh so if charging from my house it would be 116 x $0.15 = $17.40 for a full charge. You can't take the mileage they publish as gospel because I usually drive about 10mph over the speed limit (which means I use more power). So a full (daily) charge of 340 miles might mean I'll get 315 miles of actual driving. My usual routine is to charge my car like my phone, I plug it in at night and start every day with a full charge. On average I probably use about 30% of my battery every day so 30% of 116kWh is 34.8 kWh x $0.15 = $5.22 for a 30% charge.
I hope this helps.