When should you recharge your electric car?
When you own an electric vehicle, recharging the battery requires a minimum of thought and organization. Anticipating when you need to recharge will enable you to save money in the long term.
Recharge at the right time to preserve your battery
You can't recharge your electric vehicle at any time. In order to to preserve the battery your electric vehicle's battery, you need to maintain a charge level between between 20% and 80%.. Exceeding these levels once in a while won't have any real impact, but repeated too often over time can lead to premature battery ageing. Similarly, avoid constantly charging your electric vehicle. It's better to let it go from 80% to 20% charge than to recharge it to recover the 10% consumed during the day.
Take advantage of off-peak times to recharge your car
Charging your electric car at home during off-peak off-peak hours considerably reduce the cost of cost of charging. The vast majority of electricity suppliers offer the peak/off-peak option, enabling you to benefit from advantageous rates during the hours when fewer people are expected to use the electricity network. This time slot is generally set at night between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., but may vary slightly depending on your location. Depending on the situation, other time slots may be available during the day, giving consumers the choice between different times, such as :
- 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ;
- 11:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. ;
- from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
To find out when you benefit from off-peak hours, you can consult your last bill or log on to your customer area on your electricity supplier's website.
Electricity contracts better suited to plug-in vehicles
Reducing the cost of recharging an electric vehicle necessarily involves finding the best electricity tariff. On the French market, some suppliers offer special deals for Linky meters, enabling you to benefit from reduced rates particularly during off-peak hours, weekends and certain periods of the year. The profitability of these offers can be difficult to determine, as they require you to assess your consumption during specific time slots. So, using an electricity comparator can help you assess whether these offers are right for your needs.
Improved off-peak hours
Total supplier Direct Energie was one of the first to take the plunge with its Super Off-peak Hours offering a rate of 50% less compared with EDF's regulated price per kWh, from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.. For the rest of the day, the price of electricity is identical to the regulated rates. Engie's Elec'Car offer also offers a 50% discount on the price of kWh excluding VAT at night. This time, the discount applies to the offer's peak hours, which are higher than the regulated tariffs.
These offers will be particularly attractive if you can move as much of your consumption as possible to the night (and in particular the search for your electric car).
Days when electricity is cheaper
Some suppliers also choose to offer cheaper electricity certain days of the week. On the other hand, electricity prices are higher on other days. So don't recharge your electric car just any day!
The supplier Ohm Energie has two offers adapted to Linky meters Linky meters :
- Ohm Evenings and Weekends, which allows you to benefit from 40% off on the off-peak off-peak and weekends;
- Ohm Beaux Jours offers 30% off on the price of kWh between April 1 and October 31.
Unlike its competitors, EDF does not commit to a percentage reduction in the price of kWh on its 3 Linky special offers, but does guarantee to apply a lower rate with :
- Mes Jours Zen offers a choice of two formulas. The first offers reduced rates on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The second offers a reduced rate during off-peak hours and weekends.
- Mes Jours Zen Plus lets you choose a package from the Mes Jours Zen offer and add a day of the week of your choice.
- The Vert électrique Week-End offer allows you to benefit from one of the Mes Jours Zen formulas with the guaranteed green electricity.
Finally, whatever the offer you choose, be sure to check the power of your electricity subscription. Expressed in kVA (kilovolt-ampere), it represents the maximum load your meter can support.
Choosing a renewable electricity supplier
How about choosing a renewable energy supplier to supply your electricity and recharge your car? It's a perfect match for an electric vehicle.
Why choose a renewable energy supplier?
There are many advantages to choosing a green electricity supplier. The main ones are as follows:
- Choosing to favor renewable energy gives you the opportunity to take concrete action for theecology. In fact, when you already use an electric vehicle, subscribing to green electricity seems like the obvious choice. In this way, you can continue to environmental protection.
Cost. Today's green electricity suppliers offer attractive, competitive competitive rates.. Not only are you doing something for the planet, you're also doing something for your wallet!
What is a green energy supplier?
A green energy supplier is a supplier committed to marketing electricity generated from renewable sources. This means environmentally friendly environmentally friendly. There are different ways of generatinggreen electricity :
- wind power generated by the force of the wind;
- solar energy produced using photovoltaic solar panels;
- hydraulic energy from hydroelectric dams;
- biomass obtained from degradable organic waste.
Green electricity is generated from natural sources. natural sources inexhaustible sources, unlike conventional electricity generated by nuclear power plants or with fossil fuels.
How is green electricity traced?
Taking out a green electricity contract doesn't guarantee that you'll only consume electricity produced in an environmentally-friendly way. In fact, you can't sort the electricity and inject green electricity exclusively to people who have signed such a contract (unless you install solar panels for self-consumption).
However, by choosing a green supplier, you can be sure that a renewable quantity of renewable energy equivalent to your consumption is produced and injected into the electricity grid. To prove this, suppliers purchase Guarantees of Originan electronic document that enables electrons to be traced.
While some purchase exclusively from RE producers producers in France, others buy their certificates on the European market. The green and French offers are slightly more expensive, but can still be more attractive than regulated tariffs. The contribution to the energy transition and to the local economy will also be much greater!
If you would like to find out more aboutsupport for the installation of charging stations for private individuals in 2024please consult our article on the subject.
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