How much is your EV costing you to run?

[ashenfie]

105.4 said:

Six months ago I was determined that I would never, ever own an electric vehicle.

This thread and the figures quoted have gone far to change my mind. So much so that this morning I’m going to be test driving an electric Berlingo van with the view to changing my order for a new diesel one to an electric one.

Additionally, the Wife and I have just been discussing changing her petrol MINI for something electric, (if the number make sense, which we’re just about to look at).

Do any of you chaps run two electric vehicles in your household? If so, how do you get in with charging?

Can you charge two vehicles at once?

There would be no option for either my Wife or I to charge at work l.

Thanks in advance

Just done the numbers;

Last month my Wife spent £303.60 on petrol, plus £18.(40?) on RFL. That was an average month.

Total = £322, plus ongoing maintenance and MOT. Call it £340-£350 pcm?



My man maths can be somewhat reckless. I’m looking for a responsible adult to either tell me I’m being sensible or stupid about firing off the MINI and getting her something similar that’s electric.

Edited by 105.4 on Sunday 10th July 09:58

If my maths is right your wife is doing 20k miles per year. I assume if the work mileage 75 miles per day. The not really mini ev mileage as your wife could be charging twice some days. More practical would be a Tesla 3 or similar . That’s £500 per month plus the extra miles. There are cheaper option but these will unlikely be available in the next 12months or have a reasonable range. But ultimate you would save, and avoid charging both cars on the same day and alls good.

[OutInTheShed]

ashenfie said:

If my maths is right your wife is doing 20k miles per year. I assume if the work mileage 75 miles per day. The not really mini ev mileage as your wife could be charging twice some days. More practical would be a Tesla 3 or similar . That’s £500 per month plus the extra miles. There are cheaper option but these will unlikely be available in the next 12months or have a reasonable range. But ultimate you would save, and avoid charging both cars on the same day and alls good.

A quick look at Carwow suggests 48months, £5k down and £500 a month for 8k miles a year. Call that £7k a year.
20p per mile above 8k £2400 a year.
£9400 for 20k miles = 47p per mile plus electricity.

[Discombobulate]

105.4 said:

Six months ago I was determined that I would never, ever own an electric vehicle.

This thread and the figures quoted have gone far to change my mind. So much so that this morning I’m going to be test driving an electric Berlingo van with the view to changing my order for a new diesel one to an electric one.

Additionally, the Wife and I have just been discussing changing her petrol MINI for something electric, (if the number make sense, which we’re just about to look at).

Do any of you chaps run two electric vehicles in your household? If so, how do you get in with charging?

Can you charge two vehicles at once?

There would be no option for either my Wife or I to charge at work l.

Thanks in advance

Just done the numbers;

Last month my Wife spent £303.60 on petrol, plus £18.(40?) on RFL. That was an average month.

Total = £322, plus ongoing maintenance and MOT. Call it £340-£350 pcm?



My man maths can be somewhat reckless. I’m looking for a responsible adult to either tell me I’m being sensible or stupid about firing off the MINI and getting her something similar that’s electric.

Edited by 105.4 on Sunday 10th July 09:58

We run two cars with a single 7kW charger. Not been an issue in over 12,000 miles and we do all our charging at home

[ashenfie]

OutInTheShed said:

ashenfie said:

If my maths is right your wife is doing 20k miles per year. I assume if the work mileage 75 miles per day. The not really mini ev mileage as your wife could be charging twice some days. More practical would be a Tesla 3 or similar . That’s £500 per month plus the extra miles. There are cheaper option but these will unlikely be available in the next 12months or have a reasonable range. But ultimate you would save, and avoid charging both cars on the same day and alls good.

A quick look at Carwow suggests 48months, £5k down and £500 a month for 8k miles a year. Call that £7k a year.
20p per mile above 8k £2400 a year.
£9400 for 20k miles = 47p per mile plus electricity.

[ashenfie]

OutInTheShed said:

ashenfie said:

If my maths is right your wife is doing 20k miles per year. I assume if the work mileage 75 miles per day. The not really mini ev mileage as your wife could be charging twice some days. More practical would be a Tesla 3 or similar . That’s £500 per month plus the extra miles. There are cheaper option but these will unlikely be available in the next 12months or have a reasonable range. But ultimate you would save, and avoid charging both cars on the same day and alls good.

A quick look at Carwow suggests 48months, £5k down and £500 a month for 8k miles a year. Call that £7k a year.
20p per mile above 8k £2400 a year.
£9400 for 20k miles = 47p per mile plus electricity.

The large deposit is used to reduce the appearance of the monthly payments nothing wrong in that but it does confuse the monthly cost.
In you calc you have 5k plus 48x500 plus 2400x4 equals 34,100 or £710 per month plus electricity

[LordGrover]

LordGrover said:

BMW i3
BEV 9,000 miles p.a. @ 1p mile* = £100
Maintenance: 1 tyre (damaged) £125
Insurance: £251 p.a.
RFL: £0
Total: £476 (inc bad luck/tyre)

= c. £0.05 mile

* 4.5p/kW 00.00-05.00GMT @ 3.9 Mi/kWh (15.9 kWh/100km)

My days of cheap motoring are over!

My eDF GoElectric tariff ends this month. It looks like their peak rate and standing charge is going to be relatively high now so switching to octopus. £0.075 kWh, nearly £0.02 per mile - extortionate!
That’ll put me up to £0.06 mile net.

[soupdragon1]

My EV is earning me over £1000 a month

I don't even own it yet

Bought a VW id3 family pro in Oct for less than £30k and it's still not built yet

They are on auto trader generally around the £43-£45k area

Crazy prices and no way is it worth that kind of money

[Mr E]

LordGrover said:

My days of cheap motoring are over!

I’ll leave this here.



This is for the family estate, not exotica.

Electricity can get quite expensive before I’ll miss £130 every 300-400 miles

Edited by Mr E on Sunday 14th August 12:51

[SWoll]

soupdragon1 said:

My EV is earning me over £1000 a month

I don't even own it yet

Bought a VW id3 family pro in Oct for less than £30k and it's still not built yet

They are on auto trader generally around the £43-£45k area

Crazy prices and no way is it worth that kind of money

Isn't it the Pro Performance models that are up for around £40k, and pretty sure they were more than £30k even with the OZEV grant, as was the Family Pro?

Be interested in how many of those cars are selling at that price, a few of the AT adverts are months old. All very silly.

[Evanivitch]

My electricity rates are about to rocket by 50%.

From 5p/kWh to 7.5p/kWh...

[soupdragon1]

SWoll said:

soupdragon1 said:

My EV is earning me over £1000 a month

I don't even own it yet

Bought a VW id3 family pro in Oct for less than £30k and it's still not built yet

They are on auto trader generally around the £43-£45k area

Crazy prices and no way is it worth that kind of money

Isn't it the Pro Performance models that are up for around £40k, and pretty sure they were more than £30k even with the OZEV grant, as was the Family Pro?

Be interested in how many of those cars are selling at that price, a few of the AT adverts are months old. All very silly.

Sorry, family pro performance with alloys I ordered, specifically the MY22 5 build with the upgraded interior. All in, just under £30k after dealer discount, VW discount and govt grant

There was one identical colour and spec to mine listed at £43.5k a couple of weeks ago and it's not there now. No idea if they got full price though.

[lizardbrain]

I’m spending about, per year

500 tyres.
600 insurance
500 electricity

Depreciation is technically zero so far looking at auto trader, but I’ve bumped and scuffed a few times so in reality I suspect it’s lost about 5k over three years.

[SWoll]

soupdragon1 said:

Sorry, family pro performance with alloys I ordered, specifically the MY22 5 build with the upgraded interior. All in, just under £30k after dealer discount, VW discount and govt grant

There was one identical colour and spec to mine listed at £43.5k a couple of weeks ago and it's not there now. No idea if they got full price though.

VW were discounting ID3's late last year? Absolute madness, and what a great deal to have jumped on.

I assume you'll flip it for an easy 30-40% profit?

[soupdragon1]

SWoll said:

VW were discounting ID3's late last year? Absolute madness, and what a great deal to have jumped on.

I assume you'll flip it for an easy 30-40% profit?

I'm sorely tempted but I've all sorts of thoughts I'm battling with. The MG4 seems a great deal. Maybe talk to VW about taking the equity out of the ID3 and putting it into an ID4 for the other half.

I think I'll find it hard to get behind the wheel of a car that someone might give me £40k for. I don't think its worth it and taking £10k and putting it to something else seems the most sensible approach. Heck, maybe even a Polestar 2.