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I'd like to know how much it costs in electricity to charge a electric vehicle, especially for people who regularly use one for commuting, etc. v. how much you would be spending on gasoline instead.
My Volt added about $10-15 a month to my electric bill. I had calculated that it should add $20, but it never got that high. It replaced a car that used about $150-200 a month in gas.
It depends on where your from and I don't know since your location has been hidden !!!
In some states, customers are allowed to charge their vehicle during the utility's off-peak hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at a discounted rate. As an added benefit, the entire house gets the discount, not just the car.
Depending on the rate plan and time of year, these rates varies between 6.4 cents to 4.6 cents per kWh.
Time of use rates will cost between $16.00 to $24.00 a month by charging during off-peak hours.
My Volt added about $10-15 a month to my electric bill. I had calculated that it should add $20, but it never got that high. It replaced a car that used about $150-200 a month in gas.
I'd like to know how much it costs in electricity to charge a electric vehicle, especially for people who regularly use one for commuting, etc. v. how much you would be spending on gasoline instead.
There are literally so many variables to consider that any answer you get is going to be almost meaningless.
For instance gasoline fuel tanks for most automobiles are from 35 to 60 liters (although Ford Trucks could have a 130 liter tank). But there is far more variance in battery sizes especially if you include plug in hybrid electric vehicles.
Residential electricity rates in Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, and Arkansas are less than half of the rates in Hawaii, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and California. Hawaii is over three times the rate of Oklahoma.
Gonna find out soon when i get my bill this week. I figure maybe $10 smackers. Just got the EV a month ago.
Was paying $20 a week last fall for a 2021 V8 Camaro each week. Then it went to around $27 a week the last time i got gas for it a month ago. I drive 50 miles a week so i need very little charging at around 10 hours per week.
Looks to be around $7 extra on my bill today. So that beats 80 to 95 a month for gas.
Really just depends. Figure an efficient EV is about .3-ish kwh/ mile. 30 kwh for 100 miles.
Fuel efficient car is 50 mpg, 2 gallons of gas.
Electricity prices here are 18 cents for off-peak here, call it 60 cents. Gasoline is about 3.60 right now here. Call it $7.
Definitely cheaper. Also less suck than a Prius type vehicle that gets 50 MPG. E.g. the Model 3 or Mach-E are pretty decent drives whereas the Prius or Ioniq are, well, what they are.
Rather than MPG, I just use the tank capacity vs. the Kwh of the car since you're really paying to fill the tank.
Most of the cars I had were between 12-17 gallons. Let's say 15 gallons at around $2.80 a gallon, we're looking at ~$40
My Model 3 is 75Kwh. While I rarely bring it to 0% charge, I'll still use a full charge for price, My electricity is about 7 cents / kwh. But when you add the delivery charge. It's more like 12-14 cents. At 14 cents, you're looking at about $11.
Thus - it's about a quarter of the cost in terms of filling up a gas car vs. an EV. Of course, I had to pay almost $2k to have a NEMA 14-50 outlet in.... but that's on the expensive side given my panel couldn't be further from the garage.
This is all anecdotal, of course.
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