How Much Does It Cost To Charge An Electric Car: EV Charging Explained - DrivingElectric
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- How much does it cost to charge an electric car? It's like asking how long is a piece of string - there's no one right answer. In this video, DrivingElectric's Grace Webb breaks down how much topping up an EV can cost, and the difference between using home and public chargers.
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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - How much to charge at home
01:28 - How much to use rapid charger
02:26 - Petrol vs electric costs
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As an EV driver of 3 years, I find this video frustrating as it has only demonstrated the most expensive charging costs. Typically, you only top up at home during the cheap rate, there are many free chargers, for example at supermarkets or at work places. There are many cheaper rapid chargers too.
I have driven 20,000+ miles and I am still £20 in the black thanks to refer a friend energy tariff schemes and free chargers.
The equivalent diesel would have cost £7,500 at todays prices. With free road tax, no servicing (worth £1500 over 3 years) and the £4,500 grant back in the day, that's £13,500 saving.
My perfomance EV was the equivalent price of the comparative ICE, however, had it be a normal EV and cost more that its equivalent ICE, then the saving would easily bridge the gap, plus it is a depreciating item, so will retain more value, where as fuel, road tax and servicing is worthless.
Ive not heard of free chargers
Though I am an EV fan, this video confirms one of my fears - that which in, some circumstances, a self-charging hybrid (let’s say a Toyota Corolla for comparison purposes, doing cca 60 mpg) is on par, if not better, in terms of £/mile driven for somebody who does not have access to home charging. In addition, this does not take into account things such as the cheaper car price. It’s clear that more needs to be done in regards to expanding the public charge network and driving down the costs for the end users, or reducing the price of EVs.
Sound & timely report. I can happily watch this girls report's any time. Luv the akcentt & presentation too. Now if only there were a range of affordable & fit-for-purpose EV available in Australia....
You should contact your provider if you're on a smart meter. I can get 7cent per kWh so I always just top up during that window. Set the timer on the car itself. Don't go past 80% to stop degradation. Better off with a top up every night than one go.. this video shows top end prices. Charge at night or off peak it's 1 10th of the price of fuel
You need to recalculate in line with the October Price Cap increase. Most households will be paying 52p per Kwh. Some businesses 80p per Kwh. Public rapid chargers will inevitably be more expensive
how about cost of car battery and its lifetime for electric cars.??
The total cost of energy for an electric car might also include cost of battery and car itself.
Why don't these companies show their prices in the same way they do at petrol forecourts so you know that you're paying per kilowatt hour? This should be a requirement so the public can see before entering the charging station.
Why should they have to subscribe to save? That puts non tech people like myself out of the equation to be able to get the lower rate
Do all these charging places require people to have technical phones?
As not everyone can charge from home or work, at present, owning an electric vehicle is still too expensive, parking charges plus electric charging costs, what is the incentive to purchase an electric vehicle, especially when in some areas the infrastructure is so poor?
I would love to own an electric vehicle, but I am unable to charge from home, because of my working hours, I can't use the only public charging point in the area, and when I can, I also need to add on the £5 an hour parking charges, to buy a vehicle with a 350+ miles range to cover a week's commute to and from work I'm looking at a vehicle over £40k, then add on the costs of charging and parking, is it worth changing when I currently run an 11 year old smart diesel that averages 80 miles per gallon even at £1.867 a litre, that still works out cheaper than owning an electric vehicle at present, there's no real incentive to change, the cost of electricity, parking charges and the initial cost price of the vehicles need to all come down, I respect that the batteries are expensive, but at present, the costs are out of reach of the average working class person which in turn is slowing down the sales of electric vehicles
Some other charging point charge £16 for 110mil
2:33 - I saw that 0.o
Its slow after 80% electricity is 220v need 250v or 260v🎉
You have referred to "fast" chargers, but then talked about "rapid" chargers - they are NOT the same! You've not talked at all about fast chargers, which would be used more often by people without access to home charging. And there was no discussion, as others have mentioned, about cheap home rates at night - hence the misinformed comment by someone here that a self charging hybrid is better value!
A brief example using our Mercedes EQC, which is based on the GLC. We pay 7.5p per kWh overnight (it was 5p until last week, when the tariff price rose - fixed - for the next 12 months), so to charge the 80 kWh battery costs £6 to travel around 220 miles. The GLC has a 66L fuel tank and range of 420 miles - so (at petrol prices last month of £1.85 per L - it's more now) will cost £122 to travel that distance. Our EQC will cost £12 to travel a similar distance.
Indeed, a strangely misleading video. Charging at home overnight on a reduced rate will be dramatically cheaper for most people. Typically, you'll get 200 to 300 miles for the price of a gallon of petrol, depending on the vehicle and your rate per Kw. Electric vehicles are expensive at the moment so I don't advise anyone to buy one if they can't charge at home, as public charger rates are expensive. Secondly, when charging at home, it doesn't matter if the charge rate slows down so that's most likely when you will charge to 100%, if you need to. And if you drive more than 10,000 miles a year, EVs can be very cost effective, despite the initial higher cost. Low maintenance and low depreciation also need to be considered.
If you are looking to buy an EV (I have one) forget it unless you can charge at home - Its much, much, MUCH more expensive to charge using the on road chargers than Diesel. I saw someone filling up at Mcdonalds car park - 72p per kWH -= He had put in 13.5kw (which if you drive carefully with no heating on will give you around 48 miles) and his bill was already £9.71. With heating, lights on and wipers going as it has been lately that same amount will give you (in my little VW iD3 nothing massive) around 33 Miles - FOR £9.71!! Come on there has to be something done about this if people are to be converted to EV's - How are people in flats etc with no chargers going to afford this. Of all the stuff I've seen on the web, this has to be the greatest crime of all - Come on use any influence to shame these thieving *********
That's not very inspiring when you take into account the "HIGH" cost of buying an EV... you could buy a nice luxury ice model instead...so where's the incentive...?
Instant acceleration, no emissions, no fuel bills, cheaper servicing, and if you are half smart, you charge on a timer on low cost tariff.
If you have solar, you negate power bill, therefore you drive for $0. The ICE argument was dead years ago.
28 pounds I could get 300 miles
So you get 10.71 miles per pound, and she gets 11.11 miles per pound.
I shall stick with the petrol engine.
After driving EV (SKODA Enyaq ) for 1week I am spending more of my old VOLVO desiel for100 Miles I was spending around £14, where as with Electric Charging £20 and I can see this number going up in the October with electricity price increase , when the Desiel/Petrol comes down then the EV will be very expensive , I am stated seeing this as pure SCAM by EV Group And Co (Green Environemnt)
Ha Ha Ha, can you imagine how much they will be charging when we are all forced to be driving electric cars and we have no other option.
Why am I only getting British videos?