I’ve been shopping electric providers and noticed that some of the plans offered have “EV credits” for charging your vehicle overnight. Don’t tell me that, out of the goodness of their hearts, they are forgoing profits to “save the environment.”
That’s OUR money they’re spending.
The power utilities don't do that to save the environment. They do it to incentives the EV owners to shift some of the power demand to a time of day that's easier for the power utilities to provide, which is at night.
I have little control of the timing of when my HVAC has to run (whenever I need the house cooler or warmer), when my stove and over run (when I'm hungry), or when my water heater runs (when I use up hot water). But charging an EV can be done at any time from the time you get home that afternoon until the time you leave the next morning (as long as you come home with enough charge to make it to the nearest fast charger in case you all of a sudden have an emergency trip to drive, or have a gas car as a backup). The power utilities have long wanted to shift some of the demand to night when most everything else is off. EV's are a new major demand on the grid, but at least most of the time for local driving it can be done any time of the day that's easier for the utilities.
Too bad the earth didn’t have as many dinosaurs as Saturn’s moon Titan. If we did, then we would have oceans of hydrocarbons like Titan does.
the overnight EV credits are to get people to suck down that power at off peak times, because it is stressing the grid. Maybe what you should do is start a movement of ‘we have the right to charge our EV during the day’ movement to make it more obvious to everyone how this is a bad idea