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Originally Posted by paredown
Thanks for the commentls--the question that included the 'full monty' of panels plus EV plus battery storage was inspired by the talk that I heard--and I understand that these are not necessarily tied goods.
Where we live though, our electricity cost /kw is among the highest in the nation, so charging an EV on the grid will be quite a bit more expensive than, say, Washington State where plentiful hydro-electric has traditionally kept power prices low. So the calculation of 'payback' here on an EV definitely gets more favorable if you can do solar panels.
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You know, you might investigate a bit further here. Fuel costs for a typical EV are so much lower than those for a petroleum-engined automobile that even your fuel costs at full residential retail electric utility rates are going to favor the EV. Furthermore, as a ConEd customer, you may happily become aware that you can qualify to enter a time-of-use rate agreement with them and pay 1.63 cents per kW-h for the EV charging. This can even be separately-metered such that you don't affect your house's AC-induced higher electricity prices during elevated time-of-use charges during peak summer demand.
This may apply to you.
The assortment of EVs out there can meet a lot of needs, but aren't for everyone. There is a lot of misinformation circulating about them. To summarize the specifics in your case, you don't need to change something about your house to fuel one, and your locality is very unlikely to result in you paying more for fuel than that for a combustion-engined vehicle.