What are you paying to charge your Rivian?

[brancky3]

748mi/mo @ $0/mo
My employer provides free L2 charging which covers 100% of my energy needs for the R1T.

Before the free charging, I was paying roughly $35/mo to charge at home.

Very similar for me, I almost exclusively charge at work for free. If I need to charge at home, $0.11 / kWh flat rate

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[zipzag]

Everyone here quoting per kwh rates from provider are you using the rate at time of use or figuring out per kwh once taxes and fees are added?

My distribution and supply charges add up to about 11c perkwh but I average about 14c perkwh after taxes/fees, That 14c also includes peak rates etc. I'm taking bill total divided by total kwh in a month.

11 cents is high. I pay about half that for distribution and taxes.

Oddly both Maryland and Chicago are in PJM, the Regional Transmission Authority.

 

[diehlryan]

Distribution is 3.7. Transmission/supply is 8.5.

 

[Beachbum]

I want to cry reading all these low rates

PGE NorCal with solar. Now with a heatpump water heater, any EV charging is above my solar capacity so I rarely charge at home.

Home avg $0.48/kwh (0.35 transmission + 0.13 generation) (<10% charge source)
Local EA DCFC 0.37/kwh starting 6-Mar (60% charge source)
Local ChargePoint 0.25/kwh (30% charge souce)

 

[John G.]

im curious to know for those who've had their Rivian for at least 5-6 months, how much does it cost you to charge your Rivian per month and how many miles per month you drive?

with more and more BEVs being purchased, do you think utility companies are going to start charging more for electricity peak or not? wondering if we'll get to a point where the cost per mile won't be much different between ICE and BEV.

It costs me $.0816 / kWh from my Public Utility District in Washington State.

(Now, that doesn’t include the taxes and fees added by the utility company for my house. Since I view this as a sunk cost, I don’t count this against owning an electric truck.)

I’m retired. I charge almost exclusively at home, and drive on average about 650 miles per month so far. (Spring and summer aren't here yet.)

I have 3,300 miles on my R1T delivered 9/16/2022.

(And while I know this isn’t required…I absolutely Love it!...Both my R1T and my low electric cost!)

Edit: to correct my cost for electricity... thank you VSG

 

[ads75]

I think I'm paying $0.16/kwh. So a full charge at home, from completely empty, is around $21. Filling my Wrangler, which has a similar range of 275 miles, from completely empty, is just over $60. But I also do a fair amount of charging for free at work. I usually only add about 50-60kwh at home per week.

 

[countab45]

.36kwh midnight to 6 am. we don’t charge 4-9pm when we jump to .56 and like someone said it jumps to .85 this summer for peak. adding 2kw more to solar to compensate. so it’s like prebuying 8 years of gas and after that it’s “free”.

 

[VSG]

It costs me $0.816 / kWh from my Public Utility District in Washington State.

I think you put your decimal point in the wrong place?

 

[SoCalTravels]

I want to cry reading all these low rates

PGE NorCal with solar. Now with a heatpump water heater, any EV charging is above my solar capacity so I rarely charge at home.

Home avg $0.48/kwh (0.35 transmission + 0.13 generation) (<10% charge source)
Local EA DCFC 0.37/kwh starting 6-Mar (60% charge source)
Local ChargePoint 0.25/kwh (30% charge souce)

similar in Southern California. Rates keep going up. Can be more expensive charging at home… but so much more convenient.

 

[SSteveEV]

$0.12316 / kWHr for me.

I estimate it costs me ~$60 to go 1,000 miles. About 1/3rd the cost of my previous gas vehicle.

Pretty much exactly the same for me at home. But I usually charge 1/2 mile from work for free so my costs are very low.
Just completed a 870 mile trip and spent 32.30 in DCFC with free charging at RAN, a hotel, and ski resort.

 

[CharonPDX]

I essentially only charge during my electric utility's "off peak" pricing - $0.04/kWh. That, plus a couple times "topping off" during "mid-peak" pricing ($0.12/kWh) in the hours before leaving on a longer trip, and Electrify America "Pass+" $0.31/kWh for a couple longer drives. (Although EA has had "free weekends" about half my longer trips, and now the RAN has let me charge free on two.)

EA "Pass+" is $4.00/month, but gets you a 10 cent/kWh discount, so charging the Rivian even 1/3 full pays for the pass in one charge. I only sign up for it when I'm going to take a drive that I'll need EA - two months of my six month ownership, and needed less now that RAN is building out.

Driving around town, I get an abysmal 1.6-1.7 mi/kWh. Which means 100 miles of driving costs me $2.40 when charging at home.

Compare to a 50 MPG Prius paying my local best-in-town $3.49/gallon for basically $7 to drive 100 miles, and the Rivian is a deal.

Comparing charging for free at RAN, charging for free on 240V/40A at a campground over the weekend, charging for free again on the way home to paying >$200 in diesel for the same trip in my old truck? Priceless. (Since I'd be paying for the campground regardless if Rivian or diesel pickup, I'm not counting the cost of the campground.)

 

[SourGrapes]

Wow, so many of you seem to have much lower rates than the SF Bay Area. For example, the TOU EV2-A plan from PGE is graphically shown below (off-peak is $0.26).

The PGE website states that the current off-peak rate is equivalent to $2.14/gallon of fuel.

 

[VSG]

Yeah, California is not doing a good job at all when it comes to moving towards renewable energy. Here in WA more than 2/3 of our electricity is renewable. In CA, it's only about 1/3. Here in WA we pay about $0.10/kWh, and since it's based on mostly renewable sources that cost doesn't fluctuate with global supply/demand for petroleum products.

CA is the leader in EV adoption, but now is the time to push for renewable energy production because that is what will have a direct an immediate impact on carbon emissions for all those EVs.

 

[nc10]

Everyone here quoting per kwh rates from provider are you using the rate at time of use or figuring out per kwh once taxes and fees are added?

My rate includes a $6/month fixed charge for a EV charging meter/circuit, an off peak charging rate of $0.042/kwh, and a variable fuel adjustment charge that was $0.012/kwhr last month, and has ranged from $0.009 to $0.015/kwhr over the last year. No other charges.

I use about 600 kwh/month, only charge off peak. I'm paying $0.042 + $0.012 + ($6/600kwhr) = ~$0.064/kwhr.

Have charged outside home a few times (free about 6-8 times, at parks, hotels, etc), paid ~ $0.42/kwhr once or twice, $0.35/kwhr a couple of times.

A lot of my costs cover vampire power loss, ~150 kwhr/month currently, more when cold, I'm getting about 1.7 miles/kwhr if I go by kwhr on the power meter and miles actually driven. Gear guard, phone unlock is off at home. The truck reports a higher number on the screen display (~2.3 mi/kwhr). Thus far, Rivian has refused to help, get runaround, non commital answers when I call. Support doesn't seem to really know what the truck should optimally require at 70F or 50F etc, and how to achieve that. Beyond frustating, a EV company apparently does not understand or won't discuss "real world" electrical requirements.

 

[JEV]

My rate includes a $6/month fixed charge for a EV charging meter/circuit, an off peak charging rate of $0.042/kwh, and a variable fuel adjustment charge that was $0.012/kwhr last month, and has ranged from $0.009 to $0.015/kwhr over the last year. No other charges.

I use about 600 kwh/month, only charge off peak. I'm paying $0.042 + $0.012 + ($6/600kwhr) = ~$0.064/kwhr.

Have charged outside home a few times (free about 6-8 times, at parks, hotels, etc), paid ~ $0.42/kwhr once or twice, $0.35/kwhr a couple of times.

A lot of my costs cover vampire power loss, ~150 kwhr/month currently, more when cold, I'm getting about 1.7 miles/kwhr if I go by kwhr on the power meter and miles actually driven. Gear guard, phone unlock is off at home. The truck reports a higher number on the screen display (~2.3 mi/kwhr). Thus far, Rivian has refused to help, get runaround, non commital answers when I call. Support doesn't seem to really know what the truck should optimally require at 70F or 50F etc, and how to achieve that. Beyond frustating, a EV company apparently does not understand or won't discuss "real world" electrical requirements.

Yes, vampire drain is a real concern when talking about cost of energy ! The display in the truck doesn't take this into account. There is no way to easily measure it, unless you have a separate meter. I hope Rivian can fix it with software updates.

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