You buy an electric car and you find yourself in another world, made of cleaner, less expensive energy and also available for domestic needs. It happened to Marco, who tells us about it. Our answer is here, in the new VaiEnergy channel.
by Marco Brivio
If it is true, and it probably is in part, that BEVs mainly have either supporters or detractors, I am undoubtedly in the first and enthusiastic camp, and not only for the car itself but for what the BEV brought with it with its appearance.
To explain everything better, I start from a recent trip I took with my wife and a friend to the Amalfi coast, with a Mégane E-Tech optimum charging 60 kWha journey during which we traveled approximately 2300 km, consumed 360 kW, spent 260 euros and managed various top-ups in an absolutely dignified way.
Trips out of town are expensive, but I only took two in a year. And when I top up at home….
This was the second “out of town” trip undertaken since we have had the car – early July 2023 – and adds to the one made in Tuscany last December, where my wife and I traveled just over 1100 km, consumed 160 kW and spent 120 euros.
So in total there are around 3400 km traveled with a cost of around 380 euros, so, all things considered, it’s true what they say: the Motorway top-ups are expensive and traveling by electric isn’t that advantageous compared to using fossil fuels.
But three things need to be clarified:
– the first is that Man does not live by bread alonebut also of CO2 and fine particles;
– the second is that at the charging stations, ultra-fast or otherwise, I have always recharged with theNextcharge Appwithout ever using any subscription, which would have allowed me to save modestly.
– And the third thing to remember, which is the most important, is that since we have the Mégane, July 2023 for those who have forgotten, we have traveled 13,500 km and the two journeys in question were the only two occasions in which we used the columns, but otherwise the another 10,000 km have been done charging from home.
My long farewell to fossils: auto-photovoltaic-storage-heat pump
House where we already had a photovoltaic system of 3 kWh which, after doing some math with an installer, we doubled and integrated with a 15 kWh storage.
So now if I top up the BEV from home, while the sun is shining and with the tank half full – which in all honesty is not always possible but which is almost the rule from April to September – what is illustrated in the diagram happens attachment: dei 4.5 kW required from charging, approximately 3.6 come from the photovoltaicabout one from the accumulation e just 0.007 from the net.
Which in simple terms means that if, in similar conditions, I have to recharge half a battery, 30 kW, at the costs of my contract with Enel Energia, the outlay for the kW that I take from the grid is equal to
0.4 x 0.007 x 30 = 0.084 euros.
And if anyone still has doubts, just look at the amounts of Enel bills.
But not without having first said a few words about the last thing that the BEV brought with it: given that after doubling the photovoltaic and adding storage they told us that we would have enough energy, and also seeing that our boiler was close to 25 years of honorable service, it was proposed to us install a heat pumpa induction hob and of do without gas.
The result? Zero bill and 1,100 euros more in your pocket in a year
The result can be read in the bills: to date – end of April 24 – since the delivery of the BEV – beginning of July 2023 – the total expenditure for electricity was 1260 eurosbut always since July 2023, we have had transfers from the GSE for a total of 2320 euros.
Which paradoxically means, it’s as if we were there found around 1100 euros in his pocketafter having had free hot water for heating and sanitary ware, after having cooked and loaded the car.
Of course, ours is a particular and in some ways certainly privileged condition: we certainly had to pledge some moneybut with the tax relief expected – from 50 to 65% – and with the savings on energy bills the money spent turned out to be a more than profitable investment.
Of course not everyone can do what we did, but the number of families who could do so IMHO it is not indifferentand then it is not certain that by doing so we will be able to do something for this disastrous planet of ours.
There are certainly problems and critical issues, but the wide field of detractorswhich goes from Rampini to General Vannacci, gets attached to things banal and often laughable.
All things considered, I can only be a staunch supporter of the BEV.
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