• @not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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    210 months ago

    How much are these Americans paying for their electricity? I recently got a PHEV, and if I add up what I pay in petrol with what my charger tells me I used in electricity, it’s about the same as my old petrol car. I guess it’s impressive that a 2020 SUV is costing the same to run as a 2012 hatchback, but I’m not seeing running on electric to be much of a cost saver.

    • Nomecks
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      310 months ago

      I pay about 20 cents a Kwh, and my EV costs about four bucks to go 100km. That’s about a quarter of my old gasser.

      • @not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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        -110 months ago

        I guess me lugging around a heavy ICE cuts into my efficiency, but at least I don’t have to worry about charging infrastructure on longer roadtrips. Which, from what I can tell so far is still pretty shit here in the UK.

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          10 months ago

          It’s still pretty shit everywhere. We’re still in the early adopter phase. If you think about it, electric cars really became mainstream with the Tesla Model S in 2012. If you put that in ICE adoption terms, we’re not at the model T days yet.

          As an interesting side note, cars overall are becoming less mainstream. They’re getting more and more unaffordable and gen Z aren’t rushing out to get their licenses. That should make for a very weird adoption curve.

    • FeminalPanda
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      110 months ago

      A year ago it was 4 cents a kilowatt, now it’s 9 cents.

      • @not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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        210 months ago

        Mines apparently 0.37 USD per kWh. I notice we’re not using the same units and I don’t know if that matters. Also that’s not counting the standing charge of 0.60 USD per day.