EV Fuel savings

While lying awake I was thinking about power usage in the van.

We have done 50,000 kms in the van in 4y9m.

At 6km per kWh, this works out to 8,333 kWh of electricity.

We pay between 12 cents and 24cents per kWh (12 cents is night rate, the vast majority of our charging, 24 cents is what we pay during the day and at Chargenet chargers while out and about).

So power costs at 18 cents per kWh is $1500.

In the car we replaced with our EV, we were doing well if we got 9kms per litre, lets call it 10kms/litre.

50,000 kilometres is 5000 litres (yes 5 tonnes of fuel), at $2.80 per litre that is $14,000 of fuel.

So conservative savings over 5 years is about $12,500.

Our other EV (our 2014 leaf) has done 30,000 kms so we have probably saved about $7500 in the Leaf.

Total savings $20,000.

The leaf cost $19,000, the van cost about $20,000 (including the new head units in both cases).

Effectively one car has been paid for in fuel savings over 4.5 years.

After nearly 5 years, both vehicles have excellent range remaining, and we plan on keeping both for another 5 years at least.

Two free cars is not bad!