Carwow: I drove these NEW electric cars until they DIED!

[krissrock]

Was actually able to find my rates... Charging at night is gonna dumb cheap

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[PaoloPix]

The cost of home charging in the UK, where this test was conducted, can be as low as £.075 per kW/h (over night rate) and fast chargers are about 10 time more expensive £0.74 per kW/h (Tesla superchargers are less). I have run an EV for the last 3 years and about 90% of my charging has been at home. Therefore, it's only when travelling unusually long distances that costs here get even remotely close to the figures given in this video.

The cost of energy is only 0.075 £/Kw? = 0.091 euro/Kw? In Italy we pay 0.30 euro/Kw and then we wonder why there are so few electric cars here...

 

[Salmonfisher]

The cost of energy is only 0.075 £/Kw? = 0.091 euro/Kw? In Italy we pay 0.30 euro/Kw and then we wonder why there are so few electric cars here...

0.075 is about right for off peak home charging here in UK. Most energy firms have a cheap EV rate often from about midnight to 4/5 am. With higher day rates of around 0.40/0.45. Your rate is closer to our day rate if we don’t have an overnight EV tariff. Are there no companies offering cheap EV overnight rates in Italy?

 

[krissrock]

The cost of energy is only 0.075 £/Kw? = 0.091 euro/Kw? In Italy we pay 0.30 euro/Kw and then we wonder why there are so few electric cars here...

yeah as Salmonfisher said, you may wanna look a lil deeper into the rates. it was actually kinda hard to find on my Provider's website... but the peak vs offpeak pricing is literally night and day.
and the bill doesn'tfor whatever reason doesn't itemize peak vs offpeak

 

[Wivenhoe]

the UK normal home charging is £ 0.28 / kw (35c). There are much cheaper off peak rates but in my case they charge more for the peak rates. Porsche have a tie up with Ionica and new cars get half normal price for 3 years. Normal Ultra chargers are circa £ 0.80 a $ 1 / kw. Petrol is £ 6.80 / gallon so $ 8.55

 

[cottony]

just watched the carwow video and the math doesn't check out unless i'm missing something?

the polestar has 94kwh & achieved 3.5miles/kwh efficiency, so the range it got makes sense (94 * 3.5 = 329, which is +/- 4 miles of the actual range)

the macan has 95kwh and 3.5miles/kwh, so the expected range should be (95 * 3.5 = 332.5, which is +/- 14 miles of the actual range). seems like there is some unaccounted-for slippage here?

 

[USMA81]

I will use my own electrify I generate for free off my roof

I too have free (excess solar) electricity. The annual savings are small in comparison to the premium price of an EV, especially the Macan, but it does feel good to not have any fuel / energy cost.

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