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Originally Posted by rrobson
By quite a long way!!! If a new 40kw Nissan Leaf has a range of 160 miles, and consider it takes 60kw to fully charge it (the charging process will have losses), 60kw would cost £41.40. Even my banger will easily manage 300 miles to that. If your charging at home it’s only £10, so even the most efficient diesel will be lucky to get 120 miles. Not as far off as we are lead to believe though. And where’s the electricity coming from? Still a lot of gas fired stations around the country (thankfully!)
Think I’ll keep my traditional ice car for now. At least if I’ve got a journey of more than 300 miles I know my car will easily do this trip without having to stop for a couple of hours to charge…
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There are charging losses but you're never going to be able to stuff 60kw into a 40kw Nissan leaf, probably around 46kw would be more like it.
The problem is that we keep thinking about EV's in the same way as ICE cars which they're not. If I take my regular 260 miles journey to see my Dad in the west country when I set off I have a full battery charged from home at 5p per unit so around about £2.50. En-route I will need to take another 90 miles worth of power and typically pay around 35p per unit which is going to cost me around a tenner, so a total of £12.50
Compare that to a diesel car averaging 40mpg and paying £1.50 a litre which will cost around £44 for the same trip!
I do accept that if you take into account a fictitious 33% loss during charging, set off with a flat battery and only charge at the most expensive chargers you would get close to diesel costs however in the real world EV's are much cheaper to run. We've so far done 17,000 miles in our EV, mostly charged from home @ 5p/unit which means a really significant saving. My wife commutes 60 miles a day and we've gone from spending over £10 a day on fuel to less then £1 in electric which is a saving of £2340 a year
