Cost of juicing an electric car?

B0bbyEwing

born_again said:

Someone was saying it would cost them £19.00 to charge a EV6. Which sounds a lot, they were not on a cheap tarrif, when working out. 

But that would give them 300 miles. If you take £1.75 a ltr & 50 MPG for fuel that is £48 for 300 miles. 

That is going to require some massive price increases to get parity between ICE & EV on home charging.

Ok that's the 2nd time this has been mentioned in this thread so I'm going to have to ask what is it?

Only ICE I know of in relation to vehicles is In Car Entertainment and clearly it's not that.

EV I guess must be Electric Vehicle. 

Jenni_D

Sadly my spreadsheet only goes as far back as when I first got a company car in 2010 (Astra 1.7cdti SRi) - I have separate worksheets for each car.

DrEskimo

B0bbyEwing said:

born_again said:

Someone was saying it would cost them £19.00 to charge a EV6. Which sounds a lot, they were not on a cheap tarrif, when working out. 

But that would give them 300 miles. If you take £1.75 a ltr & 50 MPG for fuel that is £48 for 300 miles. 

That is going to require some massive price increases to get parity between ICE & EV on home charging.

Ok that's the 2nd time this has been mentioned in this thread so I'm going to have to ask what is it?

Only ICE I know of in relation to vehicles is In Car Entertainment and clearly it's not that.

EV I guess must be Electric Vehicle. 

Internal Combustion Engine.

Saves writing petrol/diesel cars....

silverwhistle

Petriix said:

Anyone with home charging and a reliable smart meter signal can sign up for 7.5p per kWh overnight charging which is roughly equal to 2p per mile. I'm averaging about 1p per mile with a mix of 5p per kWh overnight and free charging from solar and at supermarkets. 

I'm in a similar situation, with solar today topping up the battery to full. Pretty certain we are both with Octopus and until very recently was charging at 5p overnight. Depending on the car's range and your usage pattern and with home charging that is a pretty safe calculation. The last time I charged out and about, and actually paid, it was 70p for a very small charge to get me home safely. Some minutes in a very pleasant market town square was enough to make sure I got home safely. Needless to say I would have made it anyway..

Today I got my licence reminder and actioned it. It really is a slick system now, and especially when you don't have to pay anything.

jimjames

born_again said:

That is going to require some massive price increases to get parity between ICE & EV on home charging.

Massive price increases are coming very soon and could tip that balance. Latest prediction is over 50p per kWh for Oct

Grumpy_chap

Martyn1981 said:

Grumpy_chap said:

B0bbyEwing said:

Jenni_D said:

Yes - I am that saddo that records every fill up in a spreadsheet. 😁

@Jenni_D let's test your sadness. Can you beat going back as far as June 2007  

That's nothing

My pence per mile spreadsheet goes right back to my Rover 414 SLi collected Saturday 19th December 1992

LOL - I wanted one of those, didn't they have an award winning engine? 

Yes, it was the Rover K-series engine, 16V and gave very good performance for the cylinder capacity
It was my aspirational dream car and I was really chuffed to have saved my pennies and got the car (May registered) in the December.
The alternative was to have a brand new Renault Laguna (with sunroof - whoop!), which had an offer on, but I did not like the Salesman, particularly when he said he did not think I could afford the car.  
I really wanted the Rover anyway and think I made the better choice.
It was the most I ever spent on a car.

MacGyver101

Ooh, that Rover new car smell.

macman

Electric is still much cheaper. If you run it as a company car, even more so with the lower BIK applicable.
But once fuel revenues and VED start to fall more sharply, road pricing will be introduced.
That potential £28bn hole in the revenues has to be replaced somehow.

Grumpy_chap

macman said:

Electric is still much cheaper. If you run it as a company car, even more so with the lower BIK applicable.
But once fuel revenues and VED start to fall more sharply, road pricing will be introduced.
That potential £28bn hole in the revenues has to be replaced somehow.

A journalist today called for £10bn of support for energy bills.  
Wouldn't it be ironic if that was provided only along with a tax on EVs.
Like winning the lottery and dying the next day.

Username03725

Jenni_D said:

Yes - I am that saddo that records every fill up in a spreadsheet. 😁

Lightweight. In 2001 as part of a job change I had to claim that ASP.Net was something I was familiar with, so wrote a web app to track my finances as a way of getting to grips with it, then a couple of years later added a module to capture fuel usage by current car. The MS SQL db contains fuel data going back to about 2003, and earlier if I just want to locate financial movements that only reference fuel purchases.