Electric cars can be half as cheap to run as petrol or diesel vehicles, according to new data.
Drivers charging at home on electric vehicle (EV) tariff save just over 56 percent compared to petrol or diesel per-mile costs. They are nearly a quarter cheaper (24 percent) for those who charge at home on a standard energy tariff.
The data, from New Automotive, found that electric vehicles are now more than half as cheap to run than a petrol or diesel vehicle when charged at home on a dedicated EV energy tariff.
The organisation has launched a fuel cost tracker to measure car running costs.
Renault ZOE in contactless car vending machine (Image: Taylor Herring)
It found that home-charged electric cars can be more than half as cheap as petrol and diesel.
It converts the latest available energy prices into a cost-per-mile figure and compares the difference in running costs between fuel types in an interactive chart.
Energy prices rises have made it harder to monitor changes to the relative running cost of petrol, diesel and electric cars – but the tracker solves this problem.
Read more: Express
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