I can attest with my special charging overnight rate in GA, I am currently paying about $1.05 per 100 miles to charge at home. That is up from 78 cents I was paying in 2015 when I got the car. It’s easy to calculate based on the battery capacity and the rate per kilowatt.
However:
To get that rate I have higher peak hour rates in the summer. So the net effect is probably about $2 per 100 miles.
But more importantly THE RATES WILL START GOING UP DRAMATICALLY WHEN HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ARE CHARGING! This is simply an early adopter benefit right now, subsidized by the government.
When those rates skyrocket, the average household will suffer huge electricity rate hikes. All to pay for wealthy people to have EVs and preach to them.
It would be interesting to know the time it takes to charge the battery for that extra 100 miles versus the 5 minutes or so it takes to pump 4 gallons of gas.
I know you said you do it off hours but it would be interesting to know.
“battery capacity”
That sounds like the wrong calculation.
You’d need to know the amount of electricity used to get to that battery capacity.
There is always loss.
You’d basically have to turn off everything but your garage outlets from the breaker box and check the kWhr difference is on your meter, before and after charging.
You can’t possibly own an EV. Whenever one of these threads pops up there are two recurring themes:
1) Only liberals drive EVs
2) Entrepreneurs will never solve the problem of battery replacement and recycling the materials.
The free market and innovation simply don’t work in EV world. Progress is impossible. We will be stuck at step one, forever.
Unfortunately, soon after, many more Americans began buying diesel powered vehicles for the same reason. Diesel fuel began costing more than gasoline because of the demand.
And if everyone on your block charges one EV overnight, your neighborhood transmission wires and transformers are not sized to handle that load regularly, like every day.