Various sites give the average electricity cost per mile of driving an electric vehicle as £0.04.
Our car normally does about 10, 000 miles a year.
Our Seat Ateca gives (if we are lucky) 40 mpg on petrol.
Our nearest filling station charges £1.199 for petrol.
This means that our Ateca would cost £1362.66 in petrol for one year.
An average electric vehicle will cost £400 per year.
So, over a 3 year lease the cost of ‘fueling’ the average electric car will be £2, 887.99 less! In fact the average EV will cost less to run over 3 years than an Ateca costs for one year.