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Old 01-24-2013, 04:59 PM   #138 (permalink)
mechman600
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How much electricity does this actually cost me?

How about some hard numbers on power consumption.

I went onto BC Hydro's website and found that I can pull up all sorts of fancy graphs showing my power consumption. As far as rates go, BC Hydro does a two tiered system:
-The first 732kWh is $0.068/kWh
-Anything over 732 kWh is charged at $0.1019/kWh.

Since I am over 732kWh per month in the colder months, I have always calculated the Electric Booger's consumption costs at $0.1019/kWh. With added taxes and levis and whatnot, that makes the actual cost at the plug in the wall $0.1123/kWh.

Here is a graph of my power consumption. I started commuting with the eBooger on October 19, 2012, so we can compare Oct-Nov-Dec of 2012 to Oct-Nov-Dec of 2011 to see the increase:


October 2012 showed a decrease in consumption from October 2011, which is weird, so we will ignore that anomaly.
Nov 2011: 960.7 kWh/Nov 2012: 1084.1 kWh = +12.8% = +$13.86
Dec 2011:1495.1 kWh/Dec 2012: 1624.2 kWh = +8.6% = +$14.50

So it doesn't look like this car is costing me a whole lot to run.

EDIT: Ok...one thing that I forgot to mention. I only charge about two thirds at home and the rest is done at work, so that impacts my costs quite a bit. Lately I have been "short charging" at home to get this to about 50/50, which makes it even better for me.

Another thing is the BC Hydro readings. About six months ago everyone got smart meters installed, so I don't know how accurate they were before....so this whole post may have been for nothing. At least I was entertained....

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