Electric Vehicle Breakout
The electric vehicle breakout module provides customers with a more detailed look at how their electric vehicle charging impacts their energy as single bar-chart. The chart explains and visualizes how a customer's electric vehicle charging impacts their overall energy use and encourages them to save energy.
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Insight: The heading reminds customers that their electric vehicle changing impacts their overall energy use and prepares them for a more detailed view of their electric vehicle use.
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Horizontal bar: The horizontal bar provides an isolated view of the customer's usage. The bar indicates three usage states: total usage, general home energy usage, and electric vehicle usage. The bar matches the data presented in the Electric Vehicle Neighbor Comparison.
Normative Messaging/Insight: A box to the right of the horizontal bar contains a brief message indicating how much of the customer's usage was EV charging. For example, "Charging your EV at home used about 153 kWh."
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Detection and Disaggregation Disclaimer - Third report and beyond (not depicted): From the third report onward, the module includes a short detection and disaggregation disclaimer that describes the data sources used to create the electric vehicle usage estimate. For example, "We combine your home profile with energy data from your smart meter to estimate your EV charging. These estimates will become even more accurate as the technology evolves." In the first two reports, this information appears as the EV Detection and Dissagregation module.
Fuel: Electric-only and dual fuel.
AMI Data Required: Hourly AMI and Appliance Detection and Disaggregation,
Data History: A minimum of one historical bill.
Billing Frequency: Monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly.