{"id":55920,"date":"2021-11-12T04:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=55920"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:11:50","slug":"solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels + Electric Car = Zero Electricity And Fuel Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Electric Car + Solar: Savings After 3 Years\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mcBKqJvEeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>How much can you save with an electric car if your home has a rooftop solar power system? In this solar\/EV owner&#8217;s case, a significant amount. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Transcript begins&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Hi, my name is Chris. I live in South-east Queensland in my fully electric house with my little family of three. Let me tell you a bit about my EV and solar setup.<\/p>\n<p>About three and a half years ago, we made the decision to purchase a fully electric vehicle &#8211; the BMW i3. A few months after that, we installed our first solar system &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/10kw\/\"> 10.8 kilowatt system<\/a>; fairly large for the time.<\/p>\n<p>But in the three years since installing that, we&#8217;ve been upgrading it; having seen great value from everything that it provides. So, we&#8217;ve upgraded the house to three phase and now have 28.8 kilowatts of panels on the roof. We can now produce up to 23.6 kilowatts of power, but unfortunately we can&#8217;t send it all back to the grid. So, whatever we don&#8217;t use is essentially wasted.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s all about moving loads to the middle of the day<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232\/#en-55920-1' id='enref-55920-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55920)'>1<\/a><\/sup>. For the pool we use a smart switch. For the hot water, we use a timer and for the car we use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/zappi-ev-charger-review\/\">Zappi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does the Zappi actually do? Well, it charges your car, just like any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/\">car charger<\/a>. This one goes up to 22 kilowatts power, but it also has CTs<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232\/#en-55920-2' id='enref-55920-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55920)'>2<\/a><\/sup>, which monitor the grid. This simply means that you can charge the car as fast as you&#8217;re actually exporting solar. So, you basically don&#8217;t pull anything from the grid unless you&#8217;re in a big rush.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris&#8217;s\u00a0 Solar And EV Savings<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve only spent $500 on servicing. So, we&#8217;ve saved at least a few thousand dollars there. We&#8217;ve driven over 138,000 kilometers. So, we&#8217;ve saved over $14,000 on fuel too. And the car drives as good, if not better than what it was when it was brand new.<\/p>\n<p>And this car is a driver&#8217;s car. It&#8217;s rear wheel drive, built from the ground up as an EV and the space inside is absolutely magnificent.<\/p>\n<p>So, what have I actually achieved here? Well, basically I don&#8217;t have a power bill anymore. I don&#8217;t have a fuel bill anymore. I get paid roughly a thousand dollars a quarter from my power company<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232\/#en-55920-3' id='enref-55920-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55920)'>3<\/a><\/sup> and I&#8217;ve got the best car I&#8217;ve ever driven.<\/p>\n<p>I think what I&#8217;ve set up here is a really good example of what&#8217;s possible. My EV&#8217;s really old and compared to a modern EV, it&#8217;s got a very small range. I can only go about 200 Ks on the highway, but I&#8217;m doing over 40,000 Ks a year without any trouble at all.<\/p>\n<p>Most people would agree that Australia&#8217;s EV uptake has been pathetic. We can only go up from here and I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<h2>Additional Commentary From Finn<\/h2>\n<p>Now, I will point out that Chris did pay $72,000 for that shiny BMW, which is more than he would have normally forked out for an ICE<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-electric-car-savings-mb2232\/#en-55920-4' id='enref-55920-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(55920)'>4<\/a><\/sup> car. 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