adamandsheri
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It took me a while to sort this out, but I thought I would share what I did and how I did it...
My utility (Cobb EMC, Georgia) has super cheap overnight charging, $0.045 cents from midnight to 6am with the first 400Kw for free. It's $0.073 from 9pm to midnight and 6am to 1pm and $0.135 from 1pm to 9pm. I want to optimize my charging overnight, but also make sure it gets a full charge. As a side note, you must check with your utility to see if they have night rates. In Georgia we have a lot of nuclear that generates spare power overnight.
I turned off profiles because they didn't seem to play nice with my scheme and they seemed pointless.
I happen to have a ChargePoint Home and I don't know how the Porsche charger works, but I set the ChargePoint Home to only turn on from 9pm to 1pm each day. I never want to charge during peak times.
I created 3 Timer profiles:
40% at 11:58pm
85% at 6am
80% at 1pm
I usually plug-in around 6pm, but regardless of when I plug in, if the charge is less than 40%, it will charge from 9pm to 11:59pm until it hits 40%.
It will then charge from midnight to 6am to 85%
In the unlikely event it didn't get to 85% by 6am (probably because I didn't plug it in), it will charge from 6am to 1pm until it get's to 80%. Since I am normally at 85% at 6am, this rarely happens.
I hope you find this helpful or mildly entertaining.
My utility (Cobb EMC, Georgia) has super cheap overnight charging, $0.045 cents from midnight to 6am with the first 400Kw for free. It's $0.073 from 9pm to midnight and 6am to 1pm and $0.135 from 1pm to 9pm. I want to optimize my charging overnight, but also make sure it gets a full charge. As a side note, you must check with your utility to see if they have night rates. In Georgia we have a lot of nuclear that generates spare power overnight.
I turned off profiles because they didn't seem to play nice with my scheme and they seemed pointless.
I happen to have a ChargePoint Home and I don't know how the Porsche charger works, but I set the ChargePoint Home to only turn on from 9pm to 1pm each day. I never want to charge during peak times.
I created 3 Timer profiles:
40% at 11:58pm
85% at 6am
80% at 1pm
I usually plug-in around 6pm, but regardless of when I plug in, if the charge is less than 40%, it will charge from 9pm to 11:59pm until it hits 40%.
It will then charge from midnight to 6am to 85%
In the unlikely event it didn't get to 85% by 6am (probably because I didn't plug it in), it will charge from 6am to 1pm until it get's to 80%. Since I am normally at 85% at 6am, this rarely happens.
I hope you find this helpful or mildly entertaining.
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