The ICCT finds battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, or 28% on public charging alone, with combustion energy costs rising up to 36% after February’s oil shock while electricity held steady. Purchase-price parity has been reached in three segments, and the small and lower-medium ones are not among them.
Battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, InsideEVs reported, on figures from the International Council on Clean Transportation. Charging only at public stations, the gap was 28%.
“Electric car drivers in Europe are paying about a third less than those with gasoline cars,” said Marie Rajon Bernard, the ICCT senior researcher who led the work.
Some of that gap is not about electricity at all. After February’s oil shock, the ICCT found, energy costs for combustion cars rose by between 12% and 36%, while the running costs of battery cars barely moved.
Petrol sells for roughly EUR 2 a litre across the bloc. The comparison flatters electric cars partly because the alternative got worse.
