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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK
(www.carbonbrief.org)
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No public charging stations go by the commercial rate. That is not too say you can't get discounts based on high energy days. Using my domestic energy supplier charging tag I sometimes get a discount if the wind is blowing or the sunshine is strong.
It will still be more than my overnight domestic rate though (7p/kwH).
Now I am jealous. This would be just 8 Euro ct/kWh...
Typical average price for household electricity is around 30ct/kWh in Germany, lowest maybe 25ct/kWh.
I guess you have one of the dynamic rates (those are not very common in Germany)? Does the price fluctuate a lot during the day?
Not dynamic, but an EV rate so I get the overnight rate and a daytime rate and I also hand control of the car charger to my provider. It will usually charge overnight but if energy is cheap on the network at other times it will trigger the charge and my entire consumption during that time will be at the night rate.
There are also incentives to save energy at particular times, cut your usage below normal levels at high demand times and get "free" energy at other times in return. It helps the provider balance the grid with their wholesale input deals.