Ridiculously cheap. We’re in the UK and our old IC car cost about £0.196 ($0.26) per mile (at today’s fuel prices) and our EV costs us £0.009 ($0.01) per mile; so around 20 times more expensive to drive an IC over an EV.

[We very rarely (i.e. twice) use public chargers. All charging is at home]

The longer eco story is even more astonishing, and I honestly wouldn’t have believed the figures 3 years ago.

We were lucky enough to be able to build an eco house. It took us over 2 years and I wouldn’t do it again, but that’s another story. However, the fuel bills are a real eye opener.

Our average monthly energy bill is around £30 ($40) (plus £20 ($26) standing charge - a fee you have to pay even if you don’t use any power). That works out to £360 ($483) a year, INCLUDING running the car!

Our old (much smaller) home was costing around £2000 ($2683) (plus 2 x standing charge, one for electricity and one for heating gas) and about £1200 ($1610) on fuel for the car.

So we’ve gone from a total energy bill (for living and travel) of £267 ($358) a month to £30 ($40) a month.

Obviously there are some huge capital costs in building an energy efficient house and buying an EV. But the recurrent costs are insane.