Hellkitten Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 I’ve done some scouring of the forums here and from what I could find it looks like about a penny a km or 2.5 cents a mile. Obviously that’s an estimate based on riding style, hills, temperature that kind of thing, but does that sound appropriately right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APGSDL Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 I actually did some measurements at the weekend and my V8 seems to be around half a penny per mile (Uk sterling and our electricity rate is currently around 22-25p per kWh). This was based upon a 17 mile ride and then charging back up to the same level after the ride and monitoring the amount used. It wasn't totally scientific as I was just messing around with it, but I will do more testing in the future to find out a more accurate figure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
level9 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Riding around hard on my S18 in traffic + hills (50% higher energy consumption than other S18 riders per euc.world) I get 23.8 Wh/km. That's something like 1/4 of 1 US cent per km. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_bike_kite Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 My cost is about a penny per mile. Obviously this cost doesn't take into account buying a new EUC when I get the urge. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellkitten Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 Thanks for the feedback, this is exactly what I was looking for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tawpie Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) I toodle around at an average 13 Wh/km generally speaking, as high as 0.028 kWh/km if I'm pushing things but the average is 13. Our power (heavily hydro and wind, so fairly inexpensive) is 0.10USD/kWh. That arithmetic works out to… essentially free. EUCWorld's math says today's just over 80 km there-and-back commute required an average of roughly 16 Wh/km (I was going faster than typical). .016 kWh/km * .10 USD per kWh = (shifting decimal places to get cents) 0.16 cents/km ($0.004 dollars per mile). The commute cost 12.8 cents. Edited May 11, 2022 by Tawpie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanghamP Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 10 hours ago, Tawpie said: I toodle around at an average 13 Wh/km generally speaking, as high as 0.028 kWh/km if I'm pushing things but the average is 13. Our power (heavily hydro and wind, so fairly inexpensive) is 0.10USD/kWh. That arithmetic works out to… essentially free. EUCWorld's math says today's just over 80 km there-and-back commute required an average of roughly 16 Wh/km (I was going faster than typical). .016 kWh/km * .10 USD per kWh = (shifting decimal places to get cents) 0.16 cents/km ($0.004 dollars per mile). The commute cost 12.8 cents. Buying and maintaining an EUC on a cost per mile isn't that much less than a car (say you buy a $2000 wheel and put 2000 miles on it...that's a dollar per mile), and most riders seem to get several EUCs. However, it may be because car ownership is grossly undervalued to the owner and to society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingWigs Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Purely electricity for my 2700wh Nikola would be about $0.27 to charge dead to full (including charger losses), and I estimate I can go 50-60 miles so thats about 1/2 a penny per mile. That said, I'm allowed to charge at work also so that goes down a bit. I've put nearly 400 miles on it so far without any problems, tire still looks good and charges to full voltage. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 My 18xl from 50% to 100% cost around ~0.25 euro. My electricity bill is around 0.18 per kWh. The "0.25" price was taken from wall WATT meter. That's how much i used while charging +balancing. For ~0.25 euro i can ride ~50km range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantraguy Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Here in BC (Canada) I pay about CDN$0.14/KWh on our second tier (the more expensive tier). I'Il generally get about 130km on a charge (Sherman) and it takes 2500Wh to charge fully, so that's a little better than 20Wh/km. 20 Wh/km is .02KWh/km, mulitply that by $0.14/KWh and the cost is $0.0028/km (or 0.28 cents/km, roughly 0.33 US cents/mile). Putting it another way, about 4km per CDN penny, or 3 miles per US penny. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingWigs Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 19 hours ago, Mantraguy said: Here in BC (Canada) I pay about CDN$0.14/KWh on our second tier (the more expensive tier). I'Il generally get about 130km on a charge (Sherman) and it takes 2500Wh to charge fully, so that's a little better than 20Wh/km. 20 Wh/km is .02KWh/km, mulitply that by $0.14/KWh and the cost is $0.0028/km (or 0.28 cents/km, roughly 0.33 US cents/mile). Putting it another way, about 4km per CDN penny, or 3 miles per US penny. Holy moly, 20wh/km? I'm getting about 34wh/km or 56wh/mile on my nikola+ ar, what's your average speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantraguy Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 5/14/2022 at 1:21 PM, FlyingWigs said: Holy moly, 20wh/km? I'm getting about 34wh/km or 56wh/mile on my nikola+ ar, what's your average speed? Probably less than yours lol! On a long ride I generally cruise around at about 35-40km/h (22-25mph). I'll ride faster on short rides but I like to do full-day rides up to about 160km (100 miles +/-) so I need to conserve battery a bit on those days. I'm also a bit of a lightweight; around 150lbs fully geared up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlitos Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 The most accurate way to tell how much electricity it takes to recharge your wheel is by buying one of these wattage meters[1] and configure the price per kWh that you pay to your electricity company. Then discharge the wheel as much as possible. Then plug everything together and wait for the results I did it and it costs me about 48¢ to fully charge my MSX 84V and I can get about 50Km of range on a good day with moderate riding. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DPJ3RGB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VikB Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 The cheapest thing about riding an EUC is the electricity to charge the battery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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