Diesel car, gasoline, or electric?

For several years now, a new trend in the automotive industry is electric cars, not only as a healthy alternative for the environment, but also as a more economical alternative compared to internal combustion engines. But is that really so?

Since fuels are becoming more expensive every day, a comparison has been made of the driving price of an electric car, one that consumes gasoline and one that consumes diesel. In all three cases new car models were used.

In short, the bill goes like this - on an annual basis, driving an electric car costs you about 174 euros, with gasoline about 1,409 euros and diesel 1,289.5 euros.

However, there is another account here, which is often overlooked, even though it levies the costs of all three cars.

In fact, if you want to buy an electric car, you should know that they are almost twice as expensive as cars of the same size as gasoline or diesel.

For example, an electric car (for example Volkswagen ID3 2022, with 150 hp engine) costs 37,925 euros. A car with gasoline of the same year (eg Toyota Yaris 1,490 cc, with 125 hp), which according to calculations consumes about 5.3 liters per 100 kilometers costs 16,790 euros. Meanwhile, a 2022 diesel (Renault Megane 1,460 cubic meters, with 115 hp), which consumes about 4.6 liters of diesel per 100km, costs 20,790 euros.

Otherwise, if we assume that a car travels 50 kilometers per day, then only the daily consumption of each car looks like this:

- Electric cars: 50 kilometers x 0.1 euros per kilometer = 0.50 euros.

- Cars with gasoline: 50 kilometers (respectively, on average 2.65 liters of gasoline consumed) x 1.40 = 3.71 euros.

- Diesel cars: 50 kilometers (about 2.3 liters of combined consumption) x 1.36 = 3.13 euros.

So you have to decide for yourself which account is more convenient for you, the price of the car, or the price of fuel.


Gent Flori

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