Cost to fill the battery, in a mundane EV
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Looking for some real-world advice on charging costs, for a mundane EV car like a Corsa E or Nissan Leaf.
These cars tend to have a battery of around 45KWh, and a claimed range of about 200 miles.
My energy price is now 36p per KWh.
Does that mean the cost to charge it is £0.36 x 45 = about £16, or do the efficiency losses add a lot to that?
200 miles for £16 is the equivalent of about 100 miles per gallon of diesel, so about 50% better than an equivalent ICE car.
These cars tend to have a battery of around 45KWh, and a claimed range of about 200 miles.
My energy price is now 36p per KWh.
Does that mean the cost to charge it is £0.36 x 45 = about £16, or do the efficiency losses add a lot to that?
200 miles for £16 is the equivalent of about 100 miles per gallon of diesel, so about 50% better than an equivalent ICE car.
Efficiency losses on charging can be 10-15%. So that 45 kWh might need 53 kWh from your energy supplier. That'd increase your cost to £19.
But you you could also save 66-75% on your 36p tariff if you can switch to a tariff with a cheap overnight rate. So the cost to do your 200 miles, even with the efficiency losses in charging, could be as little as £6 or 1 gallon.
But you you could also save 66-75% on your 36p tariff if you can switch to a tariff with a cheap overnight rate. So the cost to do your 200 miles, even with the efficiency losses in charging, could be as little as £6 or 1 gallon.
If you decide on a trip to the continent:
Fastned chargers in France are currently charging 0.59€/kWh, 0.69€ in the Netherlands. Ionity is 0.79€ if you pay with a credit card. Stations on both networks seem to be reliable.
With the Chargemap app it's possible to show only free charging stations. They can be a bit of a hit-n-miss (community-curated data), but nice when it works. On our last road trip, we did about 1000km with free electricity (or "free", since the family sometimes ended up "just browsing" at a mall with a free charger...
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Fastned chargers in France are currently charging 0.59€/kWh, 0.69€ in the Netherlands. Ionity is 0.79€ if you pay with a credit card. Stations on both networks seem to be reliable.
With the Chargemap app it's possible to show only free charging stations. They can be a bit of a hit-n-miss (community-curated data), but nice when it works. On our last road trip, we did about 1000km with free electricity (or "free", since the family sometimes ended up "just browsing" at a mall with a free charger...
).PetrolHeadInRecovery said:
If you decide on a trip to the continent:
Fastned chargers in France are currently charging 0.59€/kWh, 0.69€ in the Netherlands. Ionity is 0.79€ if you pay with a credit card. Stations on both networks seem to be reliable.
With the Chargemap app it's possible to show only free charging stations. They can be a bit of a hit-n-miss (community-curated data), but nice when it works. On our last road trip, we did about 1000km with free electricity (or "free", since the family sometimes ended up "just browsing" at a mall with a free charger... ).
PS. Hotels that offer free charging have been the biggest headache so far. Tesla destination chargers are incompatible with (most? many?) non-Teslas, so we call ahead before booking. But even having done that, we had an experience where the "charging station" was a three-pin plug in a room/loading bay that was too small for our car.Fastned chargers in France are currently charging 0.59€/kWh, 0.69€ in the Netherlands. Ionity is 0.79€ if you pay with a credit card. Stations on both networks seem to be reliable.
With the Chargemap app it's possible to show only free charging stations. They can be a bit of a hit-n-miss (community-curated data), but nice when it works. On our last road trip, we did about 1000km with free electricity (or "free", since the family sometimes ended up "just browsing" at a mall with a free charger...
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