Charging a guest's BYD Atto 3 from our solar

Visitors stayed last night. We plugged their BYD Atto 3 into our Tesla wall charger. Charged up the car battery from 18% to 100%. Grid electricity was cheap at about 16c per kWh, because there’s over 60% renewable supply. Using Amber Electric.

82% x 60kWh x 11c = $5.41

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Refuelling a car at home is so cheap, even without solar.

We used a dedicated wall charger. But we could have charged the car with just a standard power point and mobile connector. It’s just three times slower

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  1. I seen some power companies offering like $12 per month to charge your ev overnight
    Not bad 🥰
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    1. Daniel Rond $64 for 65000 kms last year for me with OVO.
      That's $5 a month for 4x times as much driving than the average punter.
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      1. Karl Jensen not bad 👍
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      2. Daniel Rond got 80kWh yesterday for 12c + 95c supply charge.
        That's enough to drive my cars 400kms
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  2. Even adding the extra 20% or losses for efficiency loss, it’s still far cheaper than an equivalent ice car.
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  3. If you get the typical retail EV 8c/kWh charge rate and some self consumption it makes my car cost me $1.50/100km... So many people can't comprehend that 🤯 as a result I am definitely driving more 😅
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  4. I charge at 8c kWh with about 60kwh a week and get 5c kWh feed in on about 200kwh a week. So free driving.
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  5. Is that mostly wind generation?

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    1. Daniel Ryan At night time? Yes, I expect so.
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  6. how much longer before we have to pay a road tax? We won't be saving that much then.

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