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How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle? (A comparison at home and on the road, with gasoline)::Few people know what a kilowatt-hour costs them, so they don’t realize how cheap EV home charging is versus gasoline. On the road, it's more complicated.

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[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This summer, at Electrify America in Erie PA, I recently paid $0.35 / kWh. And at Electrify Canada in Hamilton ON, I paid $0.57 CAD / min, which is $0.23 CAD / kWh at 150 kW.

This is roughly on par with the cost of gasoline, per mile. I assume the margins are pretty thick for Electrify, because household electricity costs less than a third of that.

For example, say it costs $0.35 / kWh. At 3.5 miles / kWh, that's $0.10 / mile.

For comparison, say gas costs $3.50 / gallon. At 30 miles / gallon, that's $0.12 / mile.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A side note: It’s only on par with gas dependent on the kWh. When that changes the outcome changes. Not all EVs get 3 kWh.

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