GM offers free nighttime charging to Chevy EV owners in Texas

General Motors is teaming up with Reliant Energy to connection escaped nighttime charging to immoderate Chevy electrical conveyance owners successful Texas.

Chevy owners who enroll successful Reliant’s EV charging plan volition person escaped nighttime charging done monthly measure credits that offset charges incurred betwixt 11PM. and 6AM, the companies said. Customers indispensable besides designate an EV to person the charging recognition done GM Energy’s Smart Charging Portal. (GM Energy is the automaker’s location vigor subsidiary, and Reliant is simply a subsidiary of NRG Energy.)

The caller program is the latest promotion to discount charging costs for EV owners, arsenic automakers heap connected perks successful the hopes of winning implicit skeptical consumers. Ford precocious announced a akin woody successful Texas, partnering with 1 of Texas’ largest electrical providers to give immoderate customers free EV charging astatine home. It besides has a promotion successful spot to supply free location chargers to each caller EV buyers done the extremity of the year.

GM and Reliant assertion the vigor for nighttime EV charging volition beryllium powered by renewable sources done the acquisition of renewable vigor certificates (RECs), a fashionable method among backstage players to burnish their biology bonafides. In the firm world, a institution purchases a REC erstwhile it wants to assertion that thing is being powered with 100 percent renewable vigor — adjacent erstwhile it is inactive being powered by fossil fuels.