How much do these cost to use? AIUI electricity prices in Europe are pretty high. What's the differential between a filling up a gas tank and filling up an EV?
More typical electric rates are half that, and many EVs are closer to 130Wh/km.
Gas price too so it's fine don't worry
If you have solar and can charge at home, you basically drive for free
You paid for the house, the solar and the new all-electric car though. So it depends on how long your commute is if it ends up cheaper or not.
EVs are at best subsidized by governments, and even that is going away.
They really need to work on price and convenience for mass adoption.
I want an EV and save the world, but it’s still way too expensive and there are no chargers around me so I’ll have to wait.
I've got an EV and an ICE crossover. The ICE crossover gets like 25mpg highway on a good day.
Let's go on a 100mi trip expecting to only charge by public fast chargers/gas stations.
Gas has been around $3/gal for a while near me. 100mi / 25mpg = 4gal * 3 = $12 in gas.
DC fast chargers around me for my car are ~$0.32/kWh. I'll get like 3.2mi/kWh highway driving my EV. 100mi / 3.2 = 31.25kWh * .32 = $10.
So slightly cheaper than my ICE. If I had a hybrid, it would beat it. 35mpg would be ~$8.57 for that trip. But DC fast chargers are very expensive; residential rates around me can be had for ~$0.12/kWh. Thus, charging at home would be ~$3.75.
However, for day to day use you charge at home or at the office which is much cheaper (maybe 25 cents?).
Charging at home tonight between 00:00 and 07:00 would be an average of 0.067 €/kWh (electricity wholesale + margin + transfer + tax).
If you can do the majority of your charging at home, then it is significantly cheaper - but even someone without a home charging set up will find it is cheaper to run an electric car in the UK.
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BP currently charge £0.65 per kwh and if a car gets 4 miles per kwh the you’re paying 16.25p per mile
So my car getting thrashed at 42 mpg using £1.36 Costco petrol costs about 14.7p per mile
And that’s not taking into account any of the finance , insurance or anything else.
Or that fuel tax is about 80% of the petrol cost.
It ranges from "electricity will cost you a little more per kilometer than gas" (very rare) to "electricity is slightly cheaper than gas" (most common) to "filling up your car with electricity gets you money back". (rare, but more common last year)
For Americans: My 1984 VW does 1l/8.5km. A full tank costs me over €95 in the Netherlands, and over €70 in neighboring countries. Driving to do a week surfing in France (2x1500km) costs me over €800 in petrol.
At home? Sure. Public chargers can have pretty significant margins, though.
European cars are (were?) more fuel efficient than US ones. I guess, partly because of the price of petrol in Europe. There are Dodge Rams, oversized SUVs and other rediculously inefficient cars driving on dutch roads, but far less common than in the US.