New EV today - aghast at the shape of my graphs, and this is just the start

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I’ve been monitoring my power since 2011 and have seen all sorts of patterns, including that day we got to 10kW.

However, I couldn’t believe what I saw when looked at the graph whilst our new EV was plugged in today…and that’s just on the mains socket:

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It’s like nothing I’ve seen before. No other device in our house just constantly draws considerable power for hours on end.

I can’t even imagine the look on my face when we move to a 7kW charger.

Are you folks just so used to it now that it seems normal?

Every time I see it my brain just thinks “something’s very wrong somewhere” and wants to go fix it.

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Yes, quite used to it now, I think early on I had to remind myself that it’s about 1/4 of the energy to do the same mileage in a petrol car. Overall ends up being one third of our overall electric consumption. My Leaf is an early model with only a 3.8 kW charger for home charging and about 20 kWh out of 24 kWh usable battery so I do still get surprised when a visitor with 50-60 kWh of battery capacity and 7kW charging plugs into our home charger! :slight_smile:

spot the EV charging:

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Mine can only charge at 3.6Kw but this is a charge up to put back 18 miles of use

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My GO Faster starts at 21.30 - 02:30

John

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We had the same when friends plugged into our charge point - which we’ve never used as our car hasn’t finally died yet, so we’ve not gone electric.

I showed them the graph and suggested that if they had enough charge to get home, to get off my charge point!!! :smiley:

Simon

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You’ll have to tell us how you feel when you plug your own car in @Bramco :slight_smile:

Our frugal diesel finally decided to croak so we had to do something.

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And there are plenty of stories out there of melted sockets as a result. At least when you move to a 32A EVSE you’ll know it was designed (and installed) with the expectation that it’ll be delivering 32A all night long.

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for me my EV added on average about 100 kw to my grid usage per month which works out to $10 a month ( i have a fair amount of surplus solar) . but I was spending roughly $150 in gas before so for me it being great. if you look at the bigger picture . you live in the UK so your electricity probable double my costs and your gas is also 30% higher then mine

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