Ouch!! First Electric Bill since getting the Lightning….yikes!

[Pjlightning]

Well it’s been a scorcher of a summer so the AC deserves some blame…..

but opening up my first electric bill since taking delivery of my Lightning was a bit “shocking “!

and I don’t even have the Charge Station Pro yet.
So this is all off the Stove plug, and the standard wall outlet.

anyone else gotten whacked yet on their first electric bill ?

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[Tomwilli2025]

When did you take delivery? How many miles have you put on it? Any off-site charging?

 

[gorwell]

Did you expect a decrease?

Not sure the purpose of those post.

You switched from paying for gas at the pump to electricity at home.

Let us know the cost to drive the miles for your current gas rates compared to your current electricity rate.

 

[monsterlag]

Man wait till you get to next stage and install solar. Couldn’t be happier.

 

[VTbuckeye]

Looks like you used 20kwh per day more than last year. At 2 miles per kWh that would be 40ish miles per day. How much do you drive. How much would it cost at $5 per gallon to drive those same miles?

 

[lancersrock]

im currently in the planning phase for solar strictly for this reason. if im going to double my electric bill might as well have the money paying off the solar equipment.

 

[F150ROD]

Lol…..

 

[TheRealDlo]

Looks like your bill went up $40?

How many miles?

Wouldn't you have paid WAY more for GAS?

 

[personalt]

This is dumb. How many KW hours did you put in to the truck. All you can tell here is you didn use as much as you used last September

 

[monsterlag]

im currently in the planning phase for solar strictly for this reason. if im going to double my electric bill might as well have the money paying off the solar equipment.

Get a good number of quotes, dare I say it’s worse than trying to buy cars. All those slimey used cars salesmen just became Solar salesmen.

 

[Pjlightning]

Did you expect a decrease?

Not sure the purpose of those post.

You switched from paying for gas at the pump to electricity at home.

Let us know the cost to drive the miles for your current gas rates compared to your current electricity rate.

Ok Let’s play nice here guys.


of course I knew my electric would go up, not down.


and of course I know that gas prices are way up. And I’m paying through the nose on my ICE of course.

it’s a whole new world for some of us in EV’s ,
so yeah, I’m curious how much impact this has on the home electric bill.

Not sure what the harm is in posting on the topic of sharing impacts on our electric Bill ? I’ve seen far worse topics …..

Summer heat must be getting to folks

 

[lancersrock]

Get a good number of quotes, dare I say it’s worse than trying to buy cars. All those slimey used cars salesmen just became Solar salesmen.

Your telling me.... and they know they can price it so it looks like you are "spending the same" as you were before but "owning your equipment". these are the main reasons i havent pulled the trigger. Im looking into "project solar" now and waiting to see what they offer. They do have a DIY so thats interesting.

 

[gorwell]

Here's what I paid for electricity for the past year:

The baseline is $24 for connection to the grid.

I have a $200 bill credit

I have solar.

Last billing month i charged my Ioniq 5 with 250kWh.

That's around 950 miles.

It cost me nothing to drive that. Paying gas would have cost me $250 with my gas cx5.

If I paid my going electricity rate I would have paid $26.

With lightning I eventually expect to have to pay for electricity, but it will be close.

 

[Lightninorian]

Here in CA a $500 electric bill is low during the summer. The lightning will put people into the overuse rate if they are still on the tiered rate. Putting a 15.2kw system on my house as soon as the solar company can get their stuff together and install it. 44 panels. Like pulling teeth to get them to follow any kind of timeline.

 

[astricklin]

People are a little upset because this is the bullshit that people use to argue against EVs....."but you'll double your electric bill"...

Do the math and figure out exactly what it cost you and compare it to your gasoline bill and then come post about it.
You should be able to see exactly how much electricity you are putting into the truck every day.

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