Power Your Drive FAQs
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Charger prices vary based on the external retailer. Generally, costs vary from $100-$500 with a $250 average. For Level 2 charger options that better fit your needs, explore our EV Home Charger Shopping tool here
SDG&E will own, operate, and maintain the charging stations at no additional cost for the life of the program. This includes all maintenance, repairs, driver calling support and billing.
You can find the terms and conditions in our online application.
No. Power Your Drive EV charging stations come directly off of an SDG&E service or transformer, so we won’t use any electricity from your property’s side of the meter.
No. Power Your Drive EV charging stations come directly off of an SDG&E service or transformer. Therefore, we will not use any electricity from your property’s side of the meter that might cause demand charges.
We approve sites based on when the application is received, if the property meets the qualifications and when the documentation is returned.
There are two ways to pay for electricity from the charging stations. The electricity is billed at an hourly rate that’s lower during nonpeak hours and higher at peak hours.
Driver pays: The cost is paid by each driver directly on their SDG&E bill. Drivers are incentivized to charge during nonpeak. An app helps automate this process for them.
Property pays: The business, apartment or condo HOA receives a bill each month for the electricity used by the drivers. If you select this option, you’ll require a load management. Your charging station vendor can help you create such a plan
SDG&E’s Power Your Drive team will provide you with materials to get your EV drivers signed up.
No problem, they can sign up for a Power Your Drive account.
We can help you anticipate your needs. Email us at EV@sdge.com to get started.
Yes, once you are logged in to the Chargepoint Portal, select my account, select SDG&E Power Your Drive and the option to select a threshold will be available.
Yes, once you are logged in to the Chargepoint Portal, select my account, select SDG&E Power Your Drive and the option to select a threshold will be available.
To set up an adapter. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s set-up directions. Once set up, make sure it is secured properly to avoid any safety issues.
Please contact the call center for any additional questions at 1-800-411-7343
ChargePoint FAQs (link)
Driver Support (ChargePoint): 1-888-758-4389, mailto:Support@ChargePoint.com
Site Host Support (ChargePoint): 1-877-850-4562, mailto:Support@ChargePoint.com
You need to sign up with SDG&E first for a Power Your Drive account. Once finished, you’ll receive an email from the charging station vendor to sign up with them.
That’s great! You’ll still need to sign up with SDG&E first, then the vendor will email instructions to link your Power Your Drive account with them.
By signing up with SDG&E first, then via the email you receive from your charging vendor, you could be charging within 30 minutes. In many cases, the location requires their own approvals to allow you to charge and will have communicated this to you in your email from them.
Power Your Drive offers an hourly rate that incentivizes drivers to charge during grid-friendly times, by providing them a cheaper rate at those times.
During mild weather days, prices could start around 13 cents per kilowatt-hour and can go up to 25 cents per kilowatt hour. During very hot days of the year where the grid is heavily constrained due to high usage, the prices could start low and go over 50 center per kilowatt-hour.
Power Your Drive charging stations are meant to do this…to incentivize drivers through price to avoid hours where the grid is constrained and at peak.
Yes, your charging station vendor’s app will help you do just this by putting a maximum price you want to pay. The charging station will stop charging when the hourly price exceeds your max price. OK with paying more to get a charge? Just increase your hourly price.
An hourly rate charges you electricity by the kilowatt-hour. The hourly prices are sent the day before by the California Independent Systems Operator that helps manage California’s electric grid from a statewide level.
Power Your Drive is the first time we can offer an hourly rate to EV drivers. This means that in the middle of a winter day, when not a lot of electricity is in use – but solar and wind are producing a lot of energy – we can offer a low hourly rate during this time.
No, you are only approved to use the charging stations your employer, apartment community or condo association emailed you about.
SDG&E has had EV time-of-use rates available for single family homes for more than five years. With these rates the day is divided by on-peak (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.), super off-peak (midnight to 6 a.m. weekdays, and midnight to 2 p.m., weekends and holidays) and off-peak (all other times). Each has a different price.
For the Power Your Drive rate, the price changes hourly. Often it is below SDG&E’s EV time-of-use rates, and during hot days when the grid is constrained it can be above those rates.
Furthermore, SDG&E wanted to offer lower charging rates to EV drivers at businesses, apartments and condos, and the current EV time-of-use rates were not available to them.
For questions about charging or your usage, call your charging stations vendor. For questions about your bill call SDG&E.
You need to sign up with SDG&E first for a Power Your Drive account. Once finished, you’ll receive an email from the charging station vendor to sign up with them.
That’s great! You’ll still need to sign up with SDG&E first, then the vendor will email instructions to link your Power Your Drive account with them.
By signing up with SDG&E first, then via the email you receive from your charging vendor, you could be charging within 30 minutes. In many cases, the location requires their own approvals to allow you to charge and will have communicated this to you in your email from them.
Power Your Drive offers an hourly rate that incentivizes drivers to charge during grid-friendly times, by providing them a cheaper rate at those times.
During mild weather days, prices could start around 13 cents per kilowatt-hour and can go up to 25 cents per kilowatt hour. During very hot days of the year where the grid is heavily constrained due to high usage, the prices could start low and go over 50 center per kilowatt-hour.
Power Your Drive charging stations are meant to do this…to incentivize drivers through price to avoid hours where the grid is constrained and at peak.
Yes, your charging station vendor’s app will help you do just this by putting a maximum price you want to pay. The charging station will stop charging when the hourly price exceeds your max price. OK with paying more to get a charge? Just increase your hourly price.
An hourly rate charges you electricity by the kilowatt-hour. The hourly prices are sent the day before by the California Independent Systems Operator that helps manage California’s electric grid from a statewide level.
Power Your Drive is the first time we can offer an hourly rate to EV drivers. This means that in the middle of a winter day, when not a lot of electricity is in use – but solar and wind are producing a lot of energy – we can offer a low hourly rate during this time.
No, you are only approved to use the charging stations your employer, apartment community or condo association emailed you about.
SDG&E has had EV time-of-use rates available for single family homes for more than five years. With these rates the day is divided by on-peak (4 p.m. to 9 p.m.), super off-peak (midnight to 6 a.m. weekdays, and midnight to 2 p.m., weekends and holidays) and off-peak (all other times). Each has a different price.
For the Power Your Drive rate, the price changes hourly. Often it is below SDG&E’s EV time-of-use rates, and during hot days when the grid is constrained it can be above those rates.
Furthermore, SDG&E wanted to offer lower charging rates to EV drivers at businesses, apartments and condos, and the current EV time-of-use rates were not available to them.
For questions about charging or your usage, call your charging stations vendor. For questions about your bill call SDG&E.