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Post by gabzimiev on Jul 10, 2015 21:34:10 GMT 11
The full terms and conditions are now available www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/your-council/funding/sustainable-city-incentives-scheme $150 rebate on powerpoint installed with timer. $250 for a EVSE with timer. and $500 for 'smart' EVSE frankly I think the requirements are overboard and stupid. and not sure why they excluded EVSE that come with the car it still costs money to install them. (but they haven't replied to my emails enquiring on why they did this requirements) Why do you need to put a timer on everything ?! it's better than nothing but I was a little disappointed with it. |
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Post by Phoebe on Jul 10, 2015 23:47:35 GMT 11
Compulsory timer does seem a bit ridiculous but, at least, they have incentives!
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Post by empowerrepower on Jul 11, 2015 0:06:40 GMT 11
Wow, very generous incentives, and good on Adelaide for their commitment to more sustainable and efficient homes.
The basic charger requirements say,
l Basic charge station: A purpose-built basic home/office EV charge station is eligible for a rebate of 50% up to a
maximum of $250 of the installed system cost. The station must have an in-built scheduled charging timer capability. A
single station with multiple cables and connectors is eligible for a single rebate only.
For the EV power point, it only needs a timer if the car doesn't have a timer capability, which most factory-made EVs would have, as far as I know.
So do basic chargers have in-built scheduled charging capability? I always do my scheduling through the car anyways, even if I was to get to use a basic charger.
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Post by gabzimiev on Jul 11, 2015 0:26:25 GMT 11
depends how you define built in you can add a timer to any basic charger... any I can think of with a built in timer would class as a smart charger, as you set the schedule with a app or website.
Yeah I didn't understand how it was okay for a power point to use the built in one in the car but not okay when you use a basic EVSE..
like I said when I got the draft requirements last month I want to query some of this stuff but they never replied to my email.
I commend the idea annoyed at the execution.
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Post by Cachexian (Gordon) on Jul 11, 2015 7:27:03 GMT 11
It would be good if the committee that were drafting the legislation had an advisor who owned and knew a lot about EVs.
Sadly, I expect it rarely works this way when legislation is being drafted.
I wonder what is the distribution of EVs in Australia?
I mean how many are production and how many are conversions. Of course converted cars would be unlikely to have timers built in, I'd guess.
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Post by lesmando24 on Jul 11, 2015 13:20:07 GMT 11
Does Adelaide have TOU pricing for electricity? I would have thought having the charger/outlet connected to a tariff that can be controlled by the power distributor a better option?
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Post by iamlsd on Jul 11, 2015 14:43:01 GMT 11
What is TOU? I'm in Adelaide but my bill (Diamond Energy) has 4 all day tariffs based on your usage from $0.26.1 to $0.34.6. My usage gets me upto the 2nd level $0.26.6. I can only get off-peak if I get it added to my service and I'm not sure if it worth it.
I like what the Adelaide council is doing but you have to live within the Adelaide City council area which is mostly businesses. Hopefully other councils follow their lead including mine (Charles Sturt).
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Post by caskings on Jul 11, 2015 18:13:42 GMT 11
TOU = Time of Use.
Your electricity retailer will charge you different rates per kwh depending on the time of day when you consume it.
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Post by iamlsd on Jul 11, 2015 18:41:32 GMT 11
OK cool and no I don't think Adelaide has any TOU plans that I'm aware of
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