Leasing Options reveal quickest and most cost effective EV’s

With electric vehicles becoming more and more popular, Leasing Options have revealed which of the UK’s top EVs can drive the length of the nation in the shortest time and for the least money.

The route starts at the tip of the UK at John o’ Groats, all the way down to the most southern point, Land’s End. Which is 837 miles, meaning that there will be stops along the way at charging stations.

Leasing Options; Key findings:

• Tesla Models S and X shared 1st place finishing with a total time of 16 hours and 18 minutes.
• Tesla Model 3 finishing 3rd and over 40 minutes faster than the Audi E-Tron that came in 4th.
• Renault Zoe is the cheapest, only costing a driver £53.61 to make the 837-mile trip.
• Tesla Model 3 was the 2nd cheapest, totalling £58.40 for the trip, 30p cheaper than it’s bigger brothers.
  VW’s E-Golf is the most expensive, costing £35 more than the winning Renault Zoe, with a total of £89.01.

You can download the map, table of findings, data, and press release via this Dropbox Folder.

Leasing Options: Their Methodology

To create this race we took many factors into account. First came the route, which was planned out using The AA’s route planner.

After that we worked out the initial cost of charging the car’s batteries before making the journey. These were calculated using help from a report from Auto Express, which detailed the cost per kWh.

Then it was a case of plotting how far each car could go before needing to recharge, which was simply a case of looking at each car’s real-life range provided by the Electric Vehicle Database.

Once we had those figures we then took the fast charge times and miles from the Electric Vehicle Database and plotted these onto the map to see where each car would need to recharge again, which was repeated until the car crossed the finish line.

We then calculated how much each recharge would have cost with the use of Zap Map’s cost calculator tool and referring again to Auto Express, which detailed connection charge and cost per kWh.

All times and costs were then totalled up to give the final figures provided above. It’s important to mention that while these figures have been calculated as accurately as possible, with the help of various online tools, they may differ slightly from actual times and costs.

The full blog post is available here

https://www.leasingoptions.co.uk/news/blog/the-ev-range-race/8346

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