PG&E EV Rate Plans in 2026: EV2-A, EV-B and E-ELEC Compared

PG&E has three rate plans for EV owners. EV2-A prices the whole home on one meter and charges 22.558 cents per kWh from midnight to 3 p.m. every day. EV-B puts the car on its own meter with different hours. E-ELEC is the electric-home plan, required for new solar. For most people charging overnight at home, EV2-A has the lowest price.

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Prices below are PG&E's bundled rates from its residential rate table for March 1, 2026 onward (Advice Letter 7846-E), checked September 23, 2026. PG&E's EV2 tariff sheet, reissued June 1, 2026, carries the same energy prices. If a community choice provider supplies your power, the generation part of these prices comes from the provider instead. For the non-EV plans, see PG&E peak hours and time-of-use rates.

PG&E EV rate prices, side by side

EV2-A: one meter, cheapest from midnight to 3 p.m.

EV2-A's hours are the same every day of the year, weekends and holidays included: peak 4 to 9 p.m., part-peak 3 to 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. to midnight, and off-peak for the other 15 hours, midnight to 3 p.m. Summer is June 1 through September 30. The off-peak price does not change with the season, which makes it easy to plan around: set the car to start charging at midnight and it pays 22.558 cents whether it is July or January.

Who qualifies. PG&E's EV2 tariff applies to customers with a currently registered battery electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle charged at home. Conventional hybrids, low-speed vehicles and electric motorcycles and bicycles do not count. The tariff also opens EV2-A on a pilot basis to homes with battery storage, which must be interconnected and at least 2 kWh for smaller users, and to homes that use an electric heat pump as the main source of water or space heating.

The 800% cap. A home whose usage over 12 months exceeds 800% of its annual baseline allowance is removed from EV2-A, barred from any EV rate for 12 months and moved to E-TOU-D unless it picks another plan. That is rare for a single home and car, but it can catch a property charging several vehicles.

EV2-A price history, 2024 to 2026

The March 2026 drop is not a straight price cut. That is when PG&E added the Base Services Charge, moving part of its fixed costs out of the per-kWh price and into a daily charge of about $24 a month for most homes. A driver who charges a lot overnight gains from the lower kWh price; a light user may see little change once the daily charge is counted. Earlier moves track PG&E's overall rate changes, covered in every PG&E rate change since 2023, and the non-EV plans are listed in PG&E's residential rate schedules.

EV-B: a separate meter just for the car

EV-B is Rate B of PG&E's Schedule EV, and it is the only version left: PG&E eliminated Rate A on November 30, 2025. The car is wired to its own meter, so the house stays on whatever plan suits it. EV-B keeps an older time pattern with its own seasons. Summer runs May through October. Peak is 2 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 3 to 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays; part-peak is 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. on non-holiday weekdays; everything else is off-peak, which in practice means 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays.

The trade-offs are real. EV-B's summer peak, 62.131 cents, is the highest of any PG&E residential rate here. It is not eligible for CARE, FERA or Medical Baseline, and PG&E's EV page says it is not eligible for SmartRate either. A second meter also means electrical work and PG&E approval before it saves anything. It makes the most sense where the house already has a meter panel set up for it or where the home's own usage pattern would be penalized on EV2-A.

E-ELEC: the electric-home plan

E-ELEC is open to homes with at least one of an EV, energy storage or an electric heat pump for water or space heating, metered together with the house. Customers on the net billing tariff must use it and do not need any of those technologies. Its off-peak price, 33.358 cents in summer and 28.468 cents in winter, is well above EV2-A's, so it is rarely the cheaper way to charge a car on its own. Its low winter prices are its strength.

What charging costs on each plan

Our own arithmetic, using March 2026 prices and 250 kWh of charging a month, all in off-peak hours: about $56.40 on EV2-A, about $83.40 on E-ELEC in summer and $71.17 in winter, and about $66.16 on EV-B in summer plus roughly $1.50 a month in meter charges. The same 250 kWh on E-TOU-C's summer off-peak price, 39.940 cents before any baseline credit, would be about $99.85. PG&E itself says off-peak charging on EV2-A costs about the same as gasoline at $2.16 a gallon, or $1.40 with CARE, and $2.39 on EV-B.

The biggest risk is the clock, not the plan. The same 250 kWh charged at 6 p.m. on a summer weekday would cost about $134.52 on EV2-A. A charger schedule set to start at midnight is worth more than any plan choice. For public charging costs next to these, see ChargePoint cost per kWh in California.

CARE, FERA and the Base Services Charge on EV plans

EV2-A keeps income-qualified discounts: PG&E lists it as eligible for CARE, which takes 35% off usage charges, and FERA, which takes 18%. E-ELEC carries the same 35% CARE discount in PG&E's rate table. On both plans, households at CARE-level incomes pay the lowest Base Services Charge tier, $0.19713 a day, and FERA-level households the middle tier, $0.39688, about $6 and $12 a month. EV-B does not qualify. If you are weighing a second meter mainly to isolate the car's cost, check first whether you would lose a CARE or FERA discount on it. Eligibility and how to apply are in PG&E's CARE and FERA discounts.

Solar, an EV and the right PG&E plan

New solar customers do not choose: the CPUC places PG&E customers on the net billing tariff on E-ELEC. Owners still on NEM 2.0 must be on a time-of-use rate, and the CPUC does not tie them to E-ELEC; ask PG&E which EV plans your NEM agreement allows before switching. A home that exports at midday and charges the car after midnight is the pattern EV2-A's hours reward. A battery changes the picture again by covering 4 to 9 p.m. For sizing panels around a car, see solar panels for EV charging in California; for other utilities, compare SCE's TOU-D-PRIME EV plan and LADWP's EV rate discount.