Are you familiar with California gas prices?

Isn't the goal to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and contribute to a cleaner environment?

> I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36.

Iirc, my “off-peak ev rate” is $0.31 with PG&E. Chargers are at $0.35 for cheap ones, and $0.45-$0.55 is fairly typical.

Note that when I got my car in 2021, off-peak rate was $0.16 or $0.18 (which is still expensive, imho).

The power companies were put in an odd spot when every new house in CA was required to have solar. The utilities are essentially guaranteed profits, so the cost of the network is essentially being distributed over fewer customers (the non-solar ones), so prices have gone up a lot.

I will add, gas is about $2 a gallon more (or more) than most other states.

> I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36.

It is way more than that! Here are my PG&E prices from a recent bill (numbers are transmission + generation):

peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWh

partpeak: 51.3 + 11.1 = 62.4 c/kWh

offpeak: 34.4 + 09.8 = 44.2 c/kWh

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fun fact about florida is that thay are considered "red state" but they have more heatpumps per person and more percentage of fully electric homes then "eco" california. For obvious reasons but it is kinda funny...