Fuel cost EV/essence/diesel

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On 14/08/2021 at 15:35, chessfou2 said:

Having recently sent an old Mondeo (essence) to scrap, leaving us with a Focus (diesel) and a new Zoe, I have been doing a 'back of fag packet' calculation of fuel cost.

For 100km it seems that our costs are (approximately):

Focus €8-9

Zoe €2 (heures creuses) €3 (heures pleines) - EDF Bleu.

Anyone else been making calculations?

You seem to have omitted the cost of purchasing your new Zoe from your calculations, and the cost of deprecation, which has already clocked 25% the instant you took delivery of it. Not to mention the loss of any interest that the capital might have made had it remained in the bank assuming you didn't finance it via a lease or similar.

So you spent around €30 k to reduce your 100 km fuel cost from the Focus cost of €8 to €9 to the cost of 2 or 3 euro for the Zoe.

Forgive me for thinking that with any car the major cost of running it over a period of time isn't the fuel cost unless you are doing starship mileages - it's the depreciation!