I’ve tracked my fuel and electricity costs over the decades and can see the electricity increase after buying the Tesla and my gasoline savings… I’ve never saved quite as much as it seemed I should have. I assumed it was vampire losses during charging or my own miscalculations or perhaps I’m driving more.

Idiotically, I never ran the math before, but but when I looked and over the past year I’ve been paying ~22.4 cents/kWh for electricity (I know I looked when buying the Tesla and it ~11.5 cents/kwH when I purchased). I compared my bill with a coworker and he’s paying 13-14 cents/kWh. I lLooked into it and I’m registered under AEP as a commercial customer and not residential. I pay a little less in generation, but about triple in distribution/transmission charges. So I’ve paid at least $1200 in extra electric bills the past year and likely more depending how long this has been going on.

Do you think the increased usage with the Telsa likely triggered AEP to switch? Just a random mistake on their end? What do you think the likelihood that I can retroactively get my $$ back?