Ev saving verses diesel

Why the standing charge? Do you not have electricity in the house already and pay a standing charge for it?

Think, in fairness, your cals are a bit off - especially when you consider there are better rates that that for electricity, the standing charge is being paid anyway, and the 4000 kWh has nothing to do with the EV.

You're also dealing with less potential servicing costs and items to go wrong with the car (granted this is variable) but generally servicing is considerably cheaper and there are less things to go wrong with it.

Also the costs to install the charger

Maintenance should still be a little bit cheaper. EV service is a little bit less than petrol/diesel I thought. No timing belts, turbos, or DPF's to worry about either. A lot less brake wear too. But as you said an out of warranty EV repair can be eye watering. Depreciation definitely higher on an EV too no doubt.

Tesla on the other hand. Genuinely no servicing costs at all. Tiny maintenance costs. Very little depreciation compared to other EV's

People sometimes forget when mentioning cheap ev tarriffs at certain times of the day/night that they usually end up paying above average unit rates for electricity in their household at the other times. Standing charge can be higher on these tarriffs too. You cannot just ignore that.

Unless you can get a home charger, with a EV night rate tariff, not use motorways at 120km/h regularly and rarely ever need to use DC charging, it will be close.

I had an '07 Octavia that would average 56mpg even factoring in motorway drives. €50 Diesel would be enough to do 1.5 legs of the trip from work to home for the weekends (~330KM per leg), even when Diesel was over €1.90c/L.

With a 64KWh Kona in rented accommodation where I can't install a charger and without a charger at work, 1 leg of that trip in Winter requires 2 charging stops totalling about €50 per leg. Efficiency varies largely summer vs winter. Now that it's winter I'll get about 6.5km per kwh on roads up to 100km/hour (15.4 kwh / 100KM) but that average efficiency drops all the way down to 5.3km per kwh after travelling the full length of the M17/18 (18.9kwh / 100km). In summer I got around 7.8 and 6.2 respectively.

Long story short, if you don't have the means to do the bulk of your charging relatively cheaply then it's not really worth it.

I could get an ancient Octavia fully serviced for under €150 at any garage of my choice. I've yet to get a quote for a Kona EV service for under €550 at multiple different Hyundai dealers because many traditional mechanics won't touch EVs. Teslas also have reduction gears that still need their oil changed as well, just with a whole lot less independent mechanics who will do this to keep the price competitive vs dealer.

I think the reason for including the basic was to work out which plan was better but I suspect they then forget to net it against a base electrity bill. I'll let the op explain themselves.

What I want to know is how you're getting such a cheap 24h electric price! Their basic is about 40c and despite being offered some loyalty discount at the end of last year I wasn't getting a 53% discount. Just wondering what hardball I need to be playing to those prices (sorry for the digression but had to ask)

My experience

Annual mileage 28,000km accounting for about 500km/week for work and another 2,000 per year for various other things

in 2020 I was driving a Ford Mondeo that was costing me €60 a week to run on diesel. Annual cost, just for fuel, was €3,380

Since 2023 I've been driving a similarly sized Tesla Model 3. The weekly cost for ~75kWh is less than €12 on the flogas day/night rate. So at €625 annual cost it's about a fifth of the price

Annual fuel savings = €2,755 and that's before you consider the lower servicing costs

Something that regularly gets raised is the initial cost of an EV over the cost of a diesel.

Tesla's very own website right now has a used 2022 Model 3 for €28,300.

A quick look on donedeal that kinda money for a 2022 model car gets you a Hyundai Tucson petrol a Toyota C-HR hybrid or an Audi A3 1L Petrol.

Telsa Model 3 looks smaller than a Ford Mondeo. Would the boot size be similar? What is power comparison to a Ford Mondeo 2 ltr diesel?

I pay €120 to service my Kona EV with Joe Duffy, that's up from €90 when I bought it back in 2019.

You are paying c30% more for all your other electricity. You should include that in your calculation

I pay about one euro a month for day time electricity. Car charging, 12 kWh usable home battery, immersion, dishwasher, and a washing machine run between 3 and 5 am. The battery and solar run the house ouside the 3-5am window. Excess solar and whatever is left in the battery at the end of the day get exported to the grid at 25c/kWh.