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The problem is they are using the “average electricity rate”. Most people charge at night, where if you have TOU rates, it is likely significantly cheaper.
Where I am, the overnight rate can be only 2.8¢/kWh vs 28.4¢/kWh peak.
So a lot of people pay significantly less than the average.
Unfortunately not all locations have that, such as Western WA at the moment. I say this as an EV owner, I wish we had that. I charge at night anyway, and home charging is still cheaper than gas.
Yeah - there is a toggle on one of the tables that let's you indicate your energy costs and gas costs as lower or higher than average, but even that didn't bring the cost down low enough to my actual TOU pricing. But even WITH elevated costs, electric is still looking pretty good in most cases. Public charger costs are completely out of control and so that looked about as good as could be expected.
I have solar, but I'm also on TOU, and paid TOU "discounted EV rates" before I got the solar. We're about 0.54 peak and 0.30 off peak. There are a variety of different TOU and EV plans, so it might vary a little for each customer, but consumers get big-fucked by the electric utility no matter what. I've been a utility customer for a long time, and I don't think I've ever seen rates as low as 2.8c per KWh.
Fun fact... my electric utility is a convicted felon; 84 counts of manslaughter.