{"id":25886,"date":"2020-02-16T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25886"},"modified":"2020-02-11T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:24:20","slug":"middle-class-californians-pay-for-all-tesla-owners-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/16\/middle-class-californians-pay-for-all-tesla-owners-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle class Californians pay for all Tesla owners&#8217; electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bradtempleton\/2020\/02\/11\/top-seventeen-surprises-from-the-first-year-of-driving-a-tesla-ev\/\">&#8220;Top Seventeen Surprises From The First Year Of Driving A Tesla EV&#8221;<\/a> (Forbes):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I was amazed when my electricity bill went down after I got the car, rather than up. This is because in California, EV owners get access to a special electricity pricing plan that is much cheaper at night and more expensive in the afternoons. Charging the car at night is of course a win, but I also moved things like pumping the pool to the night, and so the overall bill dropped. And of course my gasoline bill went to zero for this car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, Californians who struggle to pay rising rents and afford a 10-year-old Ford Focus pay the rich guy&#8217;s electric bill, at least for his Tesla and also for part of the pool pump. What better way to fight inequality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(In Massachusetts, no similar deal is available and thus it costs about the same to buy &#8220;fuel&#8221; for Tesla, per mile, as it does to fuel an efficient gasoline-powered car of the same size.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Top Seventeen Surprises From The First Year Of Driving A Tesla EV&#8221; (Forbes): I was amazed when my electricity bill went down after I got the car, rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-cars-including-self-driving","category-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Middle class Californians pay for all Tesla owners&#039; 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