By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
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Electric cars are up to twice as expensive as petrol or diesel vehicles to run, new figures have suggested.
Running an electric vehicle (EV) can cost more than 24p per mile, while a diesel vehicle is 12.5p.
It costs as much as 80p per kilowatt hour to charge an EV using a rapid or ultra-rapid device on the roadside, according to data from the app ZapMap.
A typical electric car will travel 3.3 miles for every kWh of electricity used, meaning rapid and ultra-rapid chargers currently cost the equivalent of 24.1p per mile, calculations by The Times suggest.
Slower chargers cost 16.4p per mile.
This is about double the average diesel car, which will do 43 miles per gallon, resulting in a cost of 12.5p per mile at current prices. A typical petrol car costs 14.5p per mile, according to the analysis.
A return journey from London to Penzance would cost £148 in an electric car using rapid chargers, The Times said, compared with £77 in a diesel car and £89 using petrol.
It added that at-home charging is much cheaper, at less than a third of the price of the average rapid charger.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/20/electric-cars-cost-double-petrol-diesel-2024/
Once again the Telegraph ignores the issue of fuel duties, which make up nearly a half of the cost of filling up with petrol and diesel.
Sooner or later EV drivers will have to pay tax too. In effect this means that the real running cost of EVs, using public chargers, is four times as expensive.
Even home charging barely works out any cheaper.
But that is not the real issue. The millions of drivers without offstreet parking are going to be paying through the nose. Indeed, this cost, the cost of buying an EV, along with the sheer hassle of queuing up at chargers will probably make owning a car an impossibility for many people.
