Maybe the charge cost is the one thing I’d bitch about. It seems quite more expensive. So far my employer pays for it but it looks like I could easily exceed my yearly allowance. Which is a luxury not everyone has so thinking about those who pay for their fuel it might be the 2nd blocking point together with the cost of the vehicle itself.
But yeah I wholeheartedly agree that I don’t wanna go back to ICE. Even my wife who was fiercely against (for no fucking reason) is now stealing my car on any occasion.
Maybe the charge cost is the one thing I’d bitch about. It seems quite more expensive.
The only case where this is true is if you use DC-Fast charging all the time. AC charging is usually around 40ct/kWh in Germany, which with a modern EV with 16-20kWh/100km is between 6,40€ and 8€ per 100km. A bit more due to charging losses, but thats not that much on modern cars. 7-9€ is the maximum. 16-20kWh is for a car like an Kia EV6 though, which is a higher-end car. If you compare that to a similarly priced ICE car, e.g. an Mercedes C-Class which uses ~6.5l/100km, you pay 11,50€/100km with the current prices of 1,75€-1,80€ per liter. For your daily business where you only drive from home to the office it’s totally feasible to use AC-charging 99% of the time.
DC-Fast charging is more expensive with ~70ct per kWh, but only useful if you do long distance trips. On long distance your car needs more energy than in the city (due to regenerative braking not doing that much), so at least 14€/100km with 20kWh/100km, probably ~16€ realistically. Compare that to Autobahn gas stations with ~2,30/l-2,40€/l and you get 15€/100km for the C-Class though. So even then its not drastically more expensive, if you directly compare the prices which most people pay on long-distance trips.
HOWEVER! You can of course drive your gas car to gas stations a bit further away from the Autobahn and save quite a lot, filling up the car for the non-Autobahn gas prices again. Thats not possible with EV fast charging, since DC-Fast charging costs the same everywhere.
HOWEVER AGAIN! If you don’t drive long distances regularly, which most people don’t do, you will save a significant amount of money since charging is cheaper than gas.
Admittedly I haven’t ran the numbers yet but based on my budget consumption I am clearly burning it faster since I switched to EV. I don’t know what you got wrong but in my particular case it is more expensive. I will run out of budget. Top of mind I can already say that before I topped up twice a month while now I charge every 3 days. And I didn’t change my driving behaviour.
With you not changing your driving behaviour that also doesnt make sense. If you topped up twice a month, thats ~1400km a month of driving? So ~50km per day, which would mean your EV has to be charged every 150km?
