DrivEV Smart Charging Rewards

Click the link below to enroll in DrivEV Rewards.

1. Follow the prompts to create an account.
2. Select and connect your vehicle.
3. Add your charging location.
4. Then either select the DrivEV Rewards charging schedule to maximize your rewards or schedule charging yourself using your preferred application – such as EV manufacturer app, EV charger, vehicle dashboard, or other app.

For questions or issues when enrolling in DrivEV Rewards, click the blue help button at the lower right-hand corner of your web browser. You may also access additional information and FAQs by scrolling further down this webpage.

If you have technical questions about electricity consumption, how to set up your charging schedule, receiving your rewards, or experience issues, please reach out to us directly.

• Email us here.
• Call your Energy Experts.

Receive $7 off your monthly electric bill for charging your EV during our rewards time.

Also receive a one-time sign-up bonus of $50 when you successfully enroll in the rewards program.

Rewards Charging Times: 12am – 3pm Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday.
Non-Rewards Time: 3pm – 12am Monday through Saturday.

By opting in to our rewards charging times, you’ll receive the full benefits of program incentives.

You always have the power to override our rewards schedule if you need to charge your EV during our non-rewards time.

If you override the rewards schedule frequently and charge during our monthly peak, PVREA reserves the right to remove the vehicle from the DrivEV program. We will then assist you in transferring to a rate or other program that may help you minimize EV charging costs.

If your electric vehicle isn’t your daily driver, or you don’t travel every day, then you may end up leaving your EV plugged in even after it’s done charging.

To ensure you maximize rewards, be sure to unplug your charger after your battery has reached your desired charge percentage.

Your selected EV charging location must be your PVREA service location (home address). Program participation requires reliable cell service/signal at the EV charging location.

We’ve partnered with FlexEnergi to create the DrivEV Smart Charging Rewards program.

We expect this program to develop into a full-scale program in the future, however some of the features and attributes may change.

You always have the power to override our rewards schedule if you need to charge your EV during our non-rewards charge time between 3pm to midnight.

If you override the rewards schedule frequently and charge during our monthly peak, PVREA reserves the right to remove the vehicle from the DrivEV program. We will then assist you in transferring to a rate or other program that may help you minimize EV charging costs.

View the Terms & Conditions document electronically or print it out. If instructed to sign and return the document, click the button below.

Connecting most EVs to the DrivEV program is a breeze, but sometimes there could be additional steps required to connect your vehicle. Below are some of the best practices we’ve found that may apply to your vehicle.

Tesla

Tesla has made a change to its software that may require Tesla drivers to reconnect their vehicle. To continue participating in DrivEV Smart Charging Rewards, we may need you to reconnect your Tesla to the program through a two-step process.

1. Use the Reconnect Page link to open the DrivEV Smart Charging Rewards program web app. On the app, tap the “Reconnect Vehicle Now” button and follow the prompts to reconnect your Tesla to FlexEnergi and Smarter. Please select all permissions when prompted. Once completed, go on to Step Two.
2. Use this link to open the Tesla Virtual Key Setup guide. Follow the instructions on the Wiki page to set up your Tesla virtual phone key.

Below are summaries of the four permission prompts that are required in step one:

• The profile information enables us to validate against the connected service account and email used for the sing-up.
• The vehicle information permission enables us to generate status events and access car information such as battery capacity, state of charge, etc.
• The vehicle commands permissions allows us to wake the car up (when it’s in an asleep state) prior to initiating a control charge command.
• The vehicle charging management permission enables us to send control charge commands to the car (start charge or end charging).

Kia & Hyundai

These cars have a 12V battery that could be drained if the vehicle is being polled too frequently. To mitigate this risk, we limit polling to these cars specifically to no more than 10 polls in a 12-hour period.

We also suggest that participants who have either of these vehicles also implement these mitigation steps:

• Make sure you are updating any app or car firmware. For example, Kia Niro vehicles have a firmware fix for a known energy drain problem, so drivers should confirm that they have the most up-to-date firmware.
• Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq should plug their cars in if they go on long vacations to protect the 12V battery.
• Bear in mind that checking your OEM app can drain the 12V battery. If your car is not plugged in, consider limiting how often you check the app to avoid battery drain issues.

Once you are in your Dashboard, click “Add Vehicle +” at the bottom and you will be prompted to select your vehicle and add your log in credentials.

Charging locations should be defined to help utilities understand where EVs are being charged. Unless defined differently by the utility or co-op program, FlexEnergi will only manage charging and/or transmit charging session information at locations that are defined.

PVREA and FlexEnergi takes your data security and data privacy very seriously and uses an encrypted token to communicate with your EV telematics system.

We do not share information that personally identifies you with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes unless you opt-in to that sharing. Visit FlexEnergi’s Privacy Policy for full details.

FlexEnergi utilizes your car’s existing API to:

• Help you meet your utility’s rate schedule and save you money (if you enable this feature).
• Comply with the charging preferences you manually set up in the app.
• Provide anonymized information to PVREA about driving data so they can plan new grid infrastructure and optimize new charging locations for electric vehicles.

Visit FlexEnergi’s Privacy Policy to learn more about how FlexEnergi manages your data.

Your participation in these types of programs helps utilities in a number of ways.

• Helps us plan for the massive influx of EVs onto the grid over the next decade by automating smart charging.
• Costs could also potentially be lowered by better utilizing existing equipment during idle periods rather than having to pay for costly distribution system upgrades.
• Simplifies the management of EV incentive programs and helps scale the program over time.