well that is interesting

[Mike Hodgson]

Whilst checking my new energy suppliers website I came across a page for comparing fuels cost for cars against say a Nissan Leaf EV
Seems I will be worse off fuel wise by going electric.

[philcwebb]

I would like to see where those figures come from - I have gone electric and did a lot of analysis beforehand.

A Skoda Octavia diesel on a very good day is about 71mpg so to do 100 miles takes 1.4 gallons - at their quoted £1.37/litre is £6.20 a gallon - thus to do 100 miles costs a Skoda £8.70. A Leaf' equivalent efficiency is 4.1 miles per KWH, thus to do 100 miles uses 24KW and at 29.7p per KW costs £7.12. Multiply that by 100 (10,000 a year miles) and that is a saving of £158. That is only the fuel, there is no tax on EV's and the servicing is a lot cheaper (my first year is £56, second year is £140)

Of course they have quoted very cheap diesel prices (where has anyone seen £1.37 recently!) and very high electric prices (mine is 22.4p) - if you use a EV tariff a KW is about 5p overnight. If you use todays numbers - £1.48 litre of diesel near me the Skoda is £9.40 for 100 miles, the EV is £5.46 - that would be a difference of nearly £400 per year over 10,000 miles.

[Mike Hodgson]

What surprised me was the fact that they are promoting EVs and have a tie up with Vanarama for leasing so I expected the bias to lean towards electric.
Just a small point my Octavia (SE Sport) is zero rated for tax.