Real Time Data

[billroper]

It turns out that I can look at my daily energy usage from ComEd with my smartphone. What I see when I look at that is that my energy usage has gone up by around $3 / day starting a week ago yesterday, which is (by no coincidence) when the new plug-in hybrid van arrived at the house and started being plugged in to recharge.

So for about the current cost of a gallon of gas each day, we're getting a hypothetical 31 miles of electric range. Overall, this is a good thing.