Gasoline is cheap right now — but charging an EV is still cheaper
Gasoline is cheap right now — but charging an EV is still cheaper
The price of home charging an electric vehicle in the U.S., on average, is equivalent to $1.41 per gallon.
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Petrol is cheap? I certainly haven't noticed.
How much are these Americans paying for their electricity? I recently got a PHEV, and if I add up what I pay in petrol with what my charger tells me I used in electricity, it's about the same as my old petrol car. I guess it's impressive that a 2020 SUV is costing the same to run as a 2012 hatchback, but I'm not seeing running on electric to be much of a cost saver.
Looks like only Hawaii has more expensive electricity than my tariff in the UK, and the average is about half what I pay.
I pay about 20 cents a Kwh, and my EV costs about four bucks to go 100km. That's about a quarter of my old gasser.
I guess me lugging around a heavy ICE cuts into my efficiency, but at least I don't have to worry about charging infrastructure on longer roadtrips. Which, from what I can tell so far is still pretty shit here in the UK.
It's still pretty shit everywhere. We're still in the early adopter phase. If you think about it, electric cars really became mainstream with the Tesla Model S in 2012. If you put that in ICE adoption terms, we're not at the model T days yet.
As an interesting side note, cars overall are becoming less mainstream. They're getting more and more unaffordable and gen Z aren't rushing out to get their licenses. That should make for a very weird adoption curve.
A year ago it was 4 cents a kilowatt, now it's 9 cents.
Mines apparently 0.37 USD per kWh. I notice we're not using the same units and I don't know if that matters. Also that's not counting the standing charge of 0.60 USD per day.
