⚡ Electric Car Day Calculator
Find your Electric Car Day
Enter your driving habits to find the date in the year when your cumulative petrol spend exceeds the total annual cost of charging an EV. From that date, your petrol spend for the year has already exceeded what you'd have paid to charge an EV all year. As reported by The Times.
Your driving
Annual mileage7,400 mi
Petrol car MPG39 mpg
Fuel price156p/litre
Your EV
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⚡3.1 mi/kWh
Your EV charging
Home charging100%
Public charging: 0%
Home tariff type
Public charging rate65p/kWh
EV efficiency3.1 mi/kWh
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Your Electric Car Day
5 June
4 days sooner than the national average (9 Jun)
BEATING THE NATIONAL AVERAGE
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9 JUN AVG
5 JUNE
Petrol/mile
18.2p
EV/mile
7.7p
Annual petrol cost
£1,346
Annual EV charging
£573
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£773estimated annual savings switching to EV
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* National average based on 7,400 miles, standard tariff charging. Your figures are estimates. Actual costs depend on car model, driving patterns, and tariff rates.
National average data sourced from The Electric Car Scheme, June 2026. EV efficiency figures: ev-database.org (real-world Wh/mi).