ELECTRIC CARSCENTRE

EV cost planner

Your driving. Your assumptions.

Build an energy-cost scenario in Australian dollars. Every input is editable; default values are examples, not live prices.

Set your scenario

EV consumption is energy used from the battery; charging efficiency accounts for additional energy drawn from the supply. If your consumption figure already includes charging losses, set efficiency to 100%.

How the calculation works

Annual EV battery energy = kilometres × EV consumption ÷ 100. Supply energy = battery energy ÷ (efficiency ÷ 100). Blended rate = home share × home tariff + public share × public tariff. EV cost = supply energy × blended rate.

Petrol cost = kilometres × litres per 100 km ÷ 100 × petrol price. Energy-cost difference = petrol cost − EV cost. Display values are rounded; the calculation uses unrounded numbers.

This is not a total ownership-cost or finance calculator. It excludes purchase price, depreciation, charger purchase and installation, finance, insurance, servicing, tyres, taxes, incentives and solar-system costs. No estimate is a guaranteed saving.

Calculations run in your browser. Inputs are not sent to us or saved between visits. An export is a local text file containing your assumptions and results.