As of: March 27, 2024, 4:30 p.m
By: Sebastian Oppenheimer
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On X, a Tesla driver shows how much charging cost him in six months - and compares the costs with a gasoline car.
Is his calculation realistic?
When the first Tesla Model S rolled onto the streets, electric cars were considered almost unbeatable in terms of fuel costs: the electricity was cheap - and Tesla customers were also allowed to charge for free at the Superchargers.
There was also free electricity for electric cars in many supermarket parking lots.
All of this is largely history.
According to a study, an electric car is still cheaper than a diesel or gasoline engine when it comes to fuel costs, but the price of electricity has risen significantly - and there are even fears that the high electricity prices are standing in the way of the growth of electric cars could.
Now a Tesla driver from the USA has published his fuel costs online - and has therefore saved a lot compared to a combustion engine vehicle.
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Tesla driver shows his charging costs over 10,000 miles
Bilal Sattar is an avowed Tesla fan and, according to his information on Platform X (formerly Twitter), also a user of the controversial Full Self-Driving Beta software.
Now he has published his charging costs on X (post can be found below) and compared them with the refueling costs of a combustion vehicle.
The difference is huge: After six months and around 10,000 miles (around 16,100 kilometers), he only spent $573 on electricity.
A comparable combustion vehicle would allegedly have cost him around $2,400 (around 2,200 euros, as of mid-March 2024) in fuel with the same mileage and an average fuel price of four US dollars per gallon (around 3.8 liters).
So you can estimate a savings of 1,800 US dollars (around 1,660 euros).
A Tesla driver from the USA published his charging costs per 10,000 miles online - and apparently saved a lot compared to the fuel costs of a combustion engine.
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How much would charging in Germany cost for 10,000 kilometers?
This difference seems very high.
Is it realistic?
It depends on which vehicle consumption you are comparing.
Sattar says that he only charges at home - the electricity there is usually significantly cheaper than, for example, at fast charging stations.
For the sake of simplicity, let's calculate his example for Germany: According to the
Federal Statistical Office,
the kilowatt hour of electricity in this country was around 42 cents in the first half of 2023.
Because he doesn't specify which Tesla model he uses, we assume a Model 3 with rear-wheel drive: Tesla states a consumption of 13.2 kWh/100 km.
So that's around 5.50 euros per 100 kilometers.
For 10,000 kilometers it would be around 550 euros in electricity costs.
This is how much a gasoline engine with an average consumption of 9 liters per 10,000 kilometers would cost
Let's now compare the values with a gasoline engine, which needs an average of 9 liters per 100 kilometers - which wouldn't necessarily be particularly economical for a mid-range vehicle.
At a fuel price of 1.80 euros, that would be a cost of 16.20 euros per 100 kilometers.
So for every 10,000 kilometers you would have to pay around 1,620 euros in fuel costs.
This means that in this example, which is rather cheap for an electric car, the fuel costs for the petrol car would be around three times as high as for the electric car.
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It is not known which combustion engine consumption data is used to calculate Sattar.
In any case, his calculation for the fuel costs for the gasoline engine comes to about four times as much.
But because a gallon, which he estimates at four dollars, is equivalent to 3.8 liters, the price for a liter of fuel is less than a dollar - so the consumption of his comparison gasoline engine is probably significantly higher.
Also important: At a public fast charging station (which is to be expanded, especially on German motorways), the electricity can often cost twice as much as at a private socket.
If you then use a particularly more economical gasoline engine as a comparison model, the comparison looks completely different again.