Renewable Energy Plan Incentivizes GM EV Owners: Free Home Charging After Midnight
Renewable Energy Plan Incentivizes GM EV Owners: Free Home Charging After Midnight
Stephen Edelstein Jun 24, 2021 greencarreports.com
General Motors and Shell on Wednesday announced a new partnership to provide renewable energy to GM customers in Texas, as well as free overnight charging for Texans who own GM electric cars.
The program offers customers electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar at fixed rates, through a Shell-owned utility, MP2 Energy LLC. The offer is available to owners of vehicles from any of GM's four brands, as well as GM suppliers and their employees.
Later this summer, GM plans to add free overnight charging, but only between midnight and 5:00 a.m. Electricity demand is generally much lower at night, allowing for lower rates and making such an offer possible.
So far the only models that would fit this program are the Chevrolet Bolt EV and its Bolt EUV sibling, although GMC Hummer EV first deliveries are still expected before the end of the year. The Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover is scheduled to follow in early 2022.
As it plans more EV launches, GM is getting more involved in charging.
The automaker hadn't invested in public fast-charging stations in any broad way until last year, but it now plans unified brand-based charging experiences, including "one-click" app-based charging.
GM also recently announced two more battery plants, alongside a pair of previously-announced factories. It's also continuing to invest in hydrogen fuel cells, albeit primarily for commercial vehicles, not passenger cars.
It's all part of an "aspiration" to eliminate tailpipes from light-duty vehicles by 2035, and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. GM has said it will offer 30 all-electric models by mid-decade and wants EVs to make up 40% of its United States lineup by 2025.
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A few details-- This only apples to investor owned utilities. All Co-ops and city utility companies i.e. Austin Electric do not allow third party electric sales -- State Law. I found a zip code that I could contract with MP2 Their price was 10.8 cents per KWH for a two year contract. I currently pay 8.5 cents and if I go renewable it is 8.56 cents with my co-op Not really an incentive.
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Welcome to the age of "green washing". There will be a lot of corporations looking to spin their ESG credentials. It should be mentioned however that the low Texas electric costs you mention are directly responsible for a wide spread freeze outage and the deaths of 151 Texans. Although other states did not experience the same loss of life, their citizens are still fighting huge bills as the cost of natural gas spiked to $1200 per mcf. States such as Minnesota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas are struggling to find ways to help their citizens pay for those bills.
An angry backlash is building across the middle of the U.S. as states step in to help their constituents pay billions of dollars in natural-gas bills racked up during February’s freeze.
While most escaped the blackouts that occurred in Texas, states from Minnesota to Kansas are having to help local utilities, businesses and homeowners cover February bills after natural-gas prices surged from around $2 per million British thermal units to as much as $1,200 in parts of the country.
Lawmakers and regulators in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas have called for investigations into market manipulation and are exploring regulatory changes. Republican and Democratic leaders in some of the states said it may be time to reconsider whether interstate gas markets, deregulated since the 1980s, need greater federal oversight to prevent a similar economic calamity from happening again.
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