Do you simply charge when you need to, or do you schedule all your charges ?

I'm retired so no set work/driving schedule and the time between needing to charge can vary from week to week so we rarely need to charge 2 consecutive days in a row.

That is why I simply plug it in and recharge it when needed without using the schedule function.

Do most owners just charge as needed or use the schedule function or does it vary ?

 

We live in a small town and I've never heard of our local electric company having any such plan as of yet, of course we live in a non-CARB state and there are likely a lot less plug-in cars in our state than in a CARB state.

Anyhow, I'm retired so no daily commute, my wife still works part time but her commute is only about 2 miles and she uses our Kia for that so it don't sit unused.

Our electric rate don't seem too bad to me, we pay about 13 1/2 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity.

So even when we need to fully recharge the battery from being drained, it only costs less than just 81 cents per charge !

We usually charge once per week, and occasionally twice, so even 6 charges per month would only add less than $5 a month !