Is an electric car REALLY cheaper to run than a petrol car? Doug Revolta and Will Nightingale do two road trips to reveal a SURPRISING outcome.
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Would you still buy an electric car? 🤔👇
I don’t think this is a good comparison at all as I’m not too sure how many people would be buying a 440i (petrol) or the electric option.
I’d be more interested to understand what the comparison is against a 420i/420d vs. electric.
Would be interesting to see a comparison: EV vs Diesel too. I've got E61 (520d) that would make this 228 miles using up just over a quarter of the entire tank (range always drops significantly slower from full than later from half tank). OK, half performance only (177BHP), but an easy 53mpg in return. And the car doesn't feel that slow. By the way, great video 👍👍👍
If you do or pay this or that. Well then if you use public transport or push bike or scooter, hire a car if you need longer distance or you walk and calculate no insurance etc. Numerous combinations are possible. Anyway, if you have to calculate all of that electric cars are failure so far.
You made a good point in this video, petrol is way to cheap, it must be taxed much higher so it reflects the damage it does to our children.
Load of you know what 😲.
Yes it is cheaper for local driving. I have leased one and its saving me massive. £3.00 weak in electric charging at home with octopus go. The car lease is 280 ppm and I use to spend more on petrol. do not listen to people who do not have one.
Weird how you didn't blur that you were speeding at 80+mph, but then did blur, the unblurred it 🙄
Maybe if you both did say 65mph, like normal/price conscious people, then the results would be different 🤔🤔 And maybe NOT fill up with petrol at the rip off merchant motorway service stations
Electric cars bulshit
Utterly pointless test. I suppose we can’t expect turkeys to vote for Christmas, petrol & diesel ban is coming. I wonder what you will write/ vlog about?
What about total cost of say 3/5 year ownership, 10,000 miles per year, total cost of fuel vs electricity…depreciation, servicing, insurance.
One huge flaw to your argument. Most EV's charge at home where the rate is substantially cheaper than at a charging station.
The vast majority of everyone's driving is done on their daily commute, not on road trips and here Electric is hands down cheaper to operate.
If you were honest, you would title this as:
ELECTRIC vs PETROL CAR – which is REALLY cheaper on a road trip??
But you are not honest – Pity.
Think you should have used what is anticipated to be the model of choice which is the i4 edrive40 with better range. This could have cost a little less. Just saying. Not sure why you choose the i4 M50 if this wasn't a performance test
Both of them are unhealthy.
Pointless exercise, if you are going to be charging at an Ionity station don’t buy an EV. Charge at home and it’s nearly 50% less running cost to petrol. Didn’t take emissions into consideration either.
I can see a new problem ahead. We already have road rage incidents, as more people switch to EVs, we're going to start seeing charge rage. Can you imagine limping into a service station on an almost flat battery, all the chargers occupied, waiting for an hour until one of them becomes available, and someone drives in straight off the motorway and blocks you? Sparks will fly, I'm telling you.
PS, if you both work for WhatCar, why did you both need to grab a copy when you were in the service station at the start of the test?
Wow, I was surprised to hear ev costs more to travel in for motorway refueling! And there will be road user taxes etc coming.
Truth
A hybrid would be perfect or electric with range extender
YOU HAVE TO FACTOR IN THE COST OF THE CAR.!! PETROL IS MILES CHEAPER!!
Charge at home for 7.5pkw- why pay 60-75pkw? Your test ignores the real world where you charge overnight. No detours or queues.
Electric cars are rediculously expensive and not environmentally friendly
Your fast charge stations rates are 3x more expensive than in Australia.
However, in Victoria Australia, the average distance between regional towns with ANY type of public charger is about 90 km compared with the UK 3.8 miles.
What happen to the used battery cells ,what energy were use to charge the verhicle and with British energy are very expensive it is viable to drive electric car ?
Total ownership cost should include the battery replacement cost…
Given that Nissan quote 3 to 5 years before the Leaf battery needs replacing… at a staggering five grand plus!
So, potentially, You would need to put a 150 pounds a month, every month, into a bank account to cover the replacement cost (Probably more actually, because 3 to 5 years of inflation of the battery price and deflation of your money's value…)
OR, you simply throw away a £35000 car, because it's now worthless with the dead battery… and spend another 40000+ pounds (allowing for inflationary price rises) on a new car 🤣
Well, unless things change considerably, if I buy a new car in the run up to 2030, it will be a petrol one.
I can’t see the point of buying an electric vehicle. If the government is promoting them it's got to be part of an evil plan 👎🏻
self charging hybrid the way to go
I don’t think this is at all a realistic test approach. You’ve taken the most expensive possible way to charge a car with not only public chargers but Ionis chargers, then put then up against hundreds of miles of motorway journeys.
If your buying electric cars it’s not because your doing hundreds of miles per day up and down the M1, and then charging at public stations.
It’s because you are mainly doing local and town journeys and charging at home, then you’ve also got to consider the lower servicing costs due to less moving parts, less road tax, less maintenance.
It’s different horses for different courses.
If you did a week of town driving then the electric car would stomp it. The fact of the matter is that electric cars as they stand don’t suit every type of driving need. If your doing hundreds of miles per day up and down motorways. Electric isn’t for you
Funny thing is after two months the i4 won't make it but M50 will on a single charge
Surprised how expensive the electric cars were, wonder how they would have faired against the respective diesel models. They don’t take the cost of your time into account waiting to charge, might only be £3 for someone on £10/hour, but what about a £300/hour lawyer that’s £100. Electric cars are very good particularly if you are able to charge at home and stay within range of your home. Look how few chargers were available at the services, again adding to your wait time, plus your more likely to spend money on a coffee etc while waiting that add to the cost of the trip. A £24k Peugeot could do a round trip without stopping for fuel, but a £65k BMW couldn’t.
The time and money used for the video is kinda of a waste, the real point is ownership and all costs over a few years but well maybe in another opportunity
Its the time to charge that is a problem for me especially if there isn't any available chargers.
Very interesting findings.
Do these guys not understand MPG though?
Firstly, MPG is a measure of efficiency, not comparable with an EVs % charge left which is an indicator of range
Secondly, it's no surprise at all that the 140i was doing better MPG on the motorway than the combined figure, that is entirely expected
Very bizarre interpretation in this video
Battery life adds a huge cost to ownership.athe only last a few years and weaken massively
Well, most people will fill electric cars at night at the house, where the price per kWh is at least 5x cheaper
Diesel is still the best fuel by far
If i get a electric car. Im going to be stealing electricity.
Oil, filters, clutch, spark plugs…
500e first car service is at 25.000 miles and it costs 49€
Now do this test in January, will you be sitting there waiting for a charger, not putting heating on?
Amazing the number of people who really believe that in future the 50% taxation on fuel or its equivalent will not apply to electric cars and will continue to be tax-free.
Maintenance ?
Haha who has the time to wait hours for a charge, the fools who thought they were being virtuous are being made to look more stupid every day, the mining for the materials for the batteries is extremely bad for the environment, child Labour is used in inhumane conditions.
Amazingly fast electric car whose performance cannot be used due to range anxiety, and all the charge stations are full when you get there. If you want to compare costs for EV against ICE you must take into account all of the costs including purchase price and replacement batteries. EV has a long way to go before it can compete with my twelve year old Saab diesel's total running costs.