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I wrote an article last week about how it’s much cheaper to charge my electric car than people think, or electric cars in general.
I knew this would be the logical followup article. We don’t have solar, since we live in a townhouse where we don’t have control over our roof. (There are ways to force it through, but that comes with some big risks we are financially equipped to storm.) However, if you have the opportunity, then sunshine can definitely provide the cheapest fuel on the planet! (Or off the planet for that matter….)
The fact of the matter is, if you have solar panels on your roof, the long-term average cost of electricity is probably lower than what you can get from the grid, especially if you really take into account the lifetime of the solar panels. Also, if you’ve got those solar panels on your roof, every extra kWh you generate from them costs $0.00. If you’re in a case where any extra electricity you generate doesn’t get compensated or gets compensated at a super low rate, then using that electricity instead to charge your car means extremely low or no incremental cost.
Under that article mentioned at the top, one of our longtime readers and regular commenters, “appliance5000,” provided a great comment on the matter as well:
