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Because they aren't: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ California electricity prices are indeed sort of an outlier
by newacct583 5y ago
Because they aren't: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
California electricity prices are indeed sort of an outlier in the mountain west, because the area is very rich in cheap hydro yet CA has much less of it per capita. Nationally, they're right about the same level as you see in the urban northeast, and obviously much cheaper than limited markets like AK and HI.
In fact, if you look at that chart it looks very much like a chart of state per-capita GDP. Seems like electricity spending tends to track the overall economy, which isn't surprising.
Also, just for scale: at the $.17/kWh price listed, that means Californians need to pay a whopping $12.75 to fill up their 75 kWh Tesla batteries.
- ericmay 5y agoWhich isn’t bad, but here in Ohio we pay $.04/kWh so to “fill up” our Tesla (standard range) it’s about $2.65 :)
- sfblah 5y agoHow much is it to fill up my used Nissan Leaf that I bought for $5500? :-)
- sfblah 5y agoJust want to test if Tesla is paying people to come through and downvote my posts. Please ignore this post.
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- ericmay 5y agoWell you’d have to look up your kWh rate from your electric bill then look up the total storage capacity of the battery, then you’d multiply and get the number. Making numbers up here but if your battery is 100 kWh and your rate is .05 per kWh then you’d pay 100 x $.05 to charge your car which is $5.00 in this case.