How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle? (A comparison at home and on the road, with gasoline)::Few people know what a kilowatt-hour costs them, so they don’t realize how cheap EV home charging is versus gasoline. On the road, it’s more complicated.
Maybe. I think it will depend on each individual’s travel patterns, as well as the car they end up getting. A Honda Civic gets 31mpg in the city and 40 on the highway, and that’s just the first car I looked at. Looking at a hybrid, like the Prius, it’s in the 50-mpg range with only a 1-mpg difference between city and highway.
I think we can at least say that fuel savings should not factor in as a buying decision for those who won’t be charging at home. It isn’t a big enough difference to matter one way or the other, and the technical winner depends on the options on the table and the lifestyle of the buyer.
Even plugging into a normal 110V at home makes a difference.
The biggest thing people forget about EVs vs ICE is that you almost never leave home without a full tank.
That’s all well and good for someone in a house. It doesn’t work for someone living in an apartment complex where they don’t have outlets they can simply plug into, and running an extension cord outside would likely violate some rules, or simply be impossible.
I’ve lived in places where my apartment was 3 floors up and my car was at least 100 yards from my door. I lived in another place where I was 21 floors up and my car was in a parking structure down the street. Another place has garage under the building with controlled access. I’ve lived in about 20 different apartments of all kinds, and I can’t think of a single one where I would have been able to charge a car.
Access is a problem for many people. I don’t know why I’m getting so much push back on this. Has no one lived in an apartment?
I mean it is, cause everything I’ve seen says that fuel costs can be double to 4x what the power costs are for recharging for an average EV… Which, if you have a 2000 per year gas bill, will see a very significant reduction.
especially if you do a lot of stop and go driving, or short range trips (to and back from work, store, school, etc), where you’ll be guzzling gas far quicker than on perfect highway conditions.
Hell, with stuff like A Better Route Planner, long range trips aint to hard either.
Technology Connections and Aging Wheels did a long roadtrip a few months back in an EV and did a series of videos about it.