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"Persistently higher fuel prices are putting the summer road trip under threat,
and new analysis by the Climate Council shows just how expensive it is now to
take a petrol or diesel vehicle to the beach. The study throws the cost of
driving a fossil car into stark relief by comparing them to electric vehicles.
Across the East Coast, the cost of “filling up” an EV is a quarter to a fifth
of the cost to fill an average ICE passenger car, with fuel consumption of
11.1L/100km.
Road trips in a fuel efficient car, such as a Skoda Fabia which uses fuel at a
rate of 4.5L/100km, cost two fifths of an average passenger car.
The study is based on an average fuel price of 186.1 cents, taken from the week
of 10 December in 2023, and state electricity prices which average out to
29.84/kWh.
But the difference in cost for a road trip during this holiday period was
likely to be even more stark: charging with rooftop solar brings the EV fuel
cost down, and Australians will be only too well aware of the steep jump in
petrol prices to more than $2 a litre during the Christmas-New Year period.
Some 70 per cent of drivers say they’re changing their driving habits,
including avoiding long road trips, because of the price of fuel, says Climate
Councillor and economist Nicki Hutley.
“Having cleaner cars that are cheaper to run will help relieve the cost of
living pressure on households. We’ve crunched the numbers and electric cars
deliver the biggest savings but even choosing a more fuel-efficient car can
generate big savings,” she says.
For drivers who are looking at buying a new or used car “you’d have to be
absolutely mad not to buy an EV right now,” says AEVA president Chris Jones,
just based on the fuel and longer term savings in maintenance, as well as the
rising number of cheaper models on offer."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
