Beginner’s questions?
Discussion
Hi all,
Ok bear with me, not considered electric cars up until now, but a change in circumstances and the new EV3 from Kia are making me look at them.
So this is probably a very very simple question,
They have a battery whose size is given in kWh.
If I go on an EV tariff it’s about 7 pence a kWh.
Looking at Ionity site, it’s 43 pence a kWh.
Does this mean if the battery is 80 kWh it takes 80x 7 p to charge? ( I understand you will never actually be putting in a full 80, cos it will never be totally empty?)
Logic tells me that’s the case, but that means a full charge at home is about £5 and at a public charger about £34. For 300 miles driving, and that sounds to good to be true?
So is my thinking wrong?
Ok bear with me, not considered electric cars up until now, but a change in circumstances and the new EV3 from Kia are making me look at them.
So this is probably a very very simple question,
They have a battery whose size is given in kWh.
If I go on an EV tariff it’s about 7 pence a kWh.
Looking at Ionity site, it’s 43 pence a kWh.
Does this mean if the battery is 80 kWh it takes 80x 7 p to charge? ( I understand you will never actually be putting in a full 80, cos it will never be totally empty?)
Logic tells me that’s the case, but that means a full charge at home is about £5 and at a public charger about £34. For 300 miles driving, and that sounds to good to be true?
So is my thinking wrong?
It does seem the price gap is narrowing, looking at Kia niro on autotrader, up to 1 year old and up to 5000 miles, the difference is only £1500 between cheapest petrol and cheapest full electric.
If you owned it 5 years, your £200 a month saving in fuel is a £12000 saving, plus cheaper servicing costs.
Obviously there would be resale value at 6 years old to consider as well. But between 6 year old 100000 mile cars, I can’t see that being much!
If you owned it 5 years, your £200 a month saving in fuel is a £12000 saving, plus cheaper servicing costs.
Obviously there would be resale value at 6 years old to consider as well. But between 6 year old 100000 mile cars, I can’t see that being much!
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