After 10,000 miles of EV ownership, my fuel bill is $230

[Phatcat73]

After 7 months of ownership of my 2013 SV, and 10,000 miles, I'm happy to say I only paid around $230 to fuel the car for that duration.

I have a utility meter in my garage and it just rolled over 2000 kWh.

2000 kWH * 0.10 = $200. I'll add an additional 15% loss for charging efficiency. $200 * 1.15 = $230

2400 kWh consumed via Carwings. The 400 is via free public charging.

-4.2 miles/kWh average
-$0.10 / kWh flat rate 24x7
-Haven't touched a gas pump since March 6, 2013
-No other maintenance service was required
-<$0.03 cost per mile
-@ 100% charge I have 283 gids. 100.7% battery life

Life is Good!

 

[smkettner]

Any losses already passed through the meter. No need to add three nickels.
Great report

 

[ksnogas2112]

Awesome report. Much better than my tracking. I use the CarWings estimator on the web. @18k miles it's $400 over 16 months.

 

[Stanton]

I too know exactly how much energy I've dumped into my Leaf via a 220v Modlet that measures and reports power usage through my home network/PC (I have a couple of other 110v Modlets--like on my stereo--as well). I can then check any time/date range I want for power consumed/cost: in the last 30 days my Leaf energy cost was 152*.09=$13.68 (slightly under my normal monthly total as I was away for a few days).

 

[Epi117]

Im at 7 month, 7 k mile with 5.0 kWh. Rarely drive on highway. Loving the leaf.

 

[DaveinOlyWA]

On Oct 7th, i passed $1,000 in fuel costs. I am sure I could have made it to Nov had public charging still been free!

 

[dgpcolorado]

I'm at 3264 kWh from the wall and 13,700 miles. At my power co-op rate that electricity would have cost about $460. But it was offset by 4358 kWh of solar power generated, so my fuel cost for my LEAF was $0. (I budget the cost of the solar panels as part of the cost of buying the car except that I expect them to last longer and fuel the next EV as well.)