How much does it cost to charge an electric golf cart from your home outlet?

Question

I have to share electricity with my neighbor because of the way the house has been split into apartments- she is complaining that I charge my golf cart and it runs her bill up- I plug it into the outlet about an hour a day before I use it- how do I figure out how much it actually costs average from the electric company?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Find your houses electric meter, and read it yourself, before and after. Clocks, fridge, TVs (even off). will draw some of the power - maybe you could unplug everything?

   Or maybe you could read how much power is used in a hour, without charger, then with charger? shut off any electric heaters, though -

including water heater. heaters use a lot of power, at irregular times.

    The meter should tell you how many kilowatt-hours are used. Figure the cost per kilowatt by dividing total electric costs on bill / kilowatts used

Answer 3

The easiest way to estimate it is to consider that electric vehicles cost around 2 cents per mile to recharge.  Golf carts aren't very powerful, so they're probably between 1 and 2 cents per mile (my electric moped for example is 1.2 cents per mile), so a safe estimate is 1.5 cents per mile.

So just keep an eye on the odometer and figure out how many miles you're driving, multiply that by 1.5, and that will give you the number of cents it costs to recharge it.  It will be just a few cents per day.

If you split the electric bill in half, you're running up your neighbor's electric bill maybe $1-2 per month tops.  And I'm sure she's doing stuff that runs your electric bill up too.

If you want to figure out exactly how much it's costing, get a meter like the Kill-A-Watt:

http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P...

It will tell you exactly how much energy you're using (in kilawatt-hours), then you just multiply that by your electric rate (probably around 12 cents per kilawatt-hour), and you get the exact cost of a recharge.

Answer 4

look at the kilowatt hours golf cart needs and look at the price of one kilowatt hour (kWh). the price should be on the bill. try charging it at night, its cheaper then.

Answer 5

your electric bill will show you your cost for the energy it'll be shown as $.158 / kW-hr (just a typical value)

Most houses have 15 amp circuits so the charger can't be pulling more than 10 amps.  10 amps time 110 volts is 1,100 watts, so that's 1.1 kW for 1 hour or 1.1 Kw-hr.  At $.158 so  17 cents per day tops.