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Over your ownership period, will an EV or a hybrid actually cost you less? Answers it properly — depreciation, charging, fuel, insurance, road tax and financing, over 3 to 10 years. The United States and Thailand are live now, with the same engine ready for more markets.
- Depreciation and resale scenarios, not just running costs
- Home, mixed, public and condo charging modelled separately
- Conservative / base / optimistic resale side by side
- Every default carries a source link, date and confidence level
- Shareable link so you can send a configured comparison
Is an EV still worth it now the federal credit is gone? Electric, hybrid and gas compared over 3–10 years on your own state's numbers.
- All 50 states plus DC — electricity, gas and EV registration fee
- The annual EV surcharge most calculators leave out entirely
- Maintenance by powertrain and segment, tyres included
- Depreciation from a 950,000-vehicle transaction study
The quick version: what you'd spend on fuel and maintenance running an EV instead of a petrol car.
- Fuel vs electricity at your own rates
- Maintenance difference included
- Annual and five-year totals
How long a charge actually takes, from a home socket to a 350 kW DC stall.
- Every charger class from 3.7 kW to 350 kW
- Accounts for the slowdown above 80%
- Estimated cost for the session
What you'll really get out of a charge once weather, speed and climate control are in the picture.
- Temperature and HVAC effects
- Highway vs city driving
- Battery age adjustment
Read a European spec sheet in miles, or a US window sticker in kilometres. Exact conversions with the formula shown.
- Miles ↔ km, mi/kWh ↔ kWh/100 km, Wh/mi and MPGe
- kW ↔ hp, psi ↔ bar, °F ↔ °C
- EPA vs WLTP: why the ratings differ
Which rebates and credits you can actually claim, by state. Expired programs are shown as expired.
- State rebates and utility programs
- What survived the federal credit expiry
- Income qualification and deadlines
What we're building next
In rough priority order. No ship dates — we've learned that publishing them just leaves stale promises on the page. A tool goes live when its data is good enough to stand behind, not before.
What charging actually costs at home vs at a public station on your own numbers — and whether a home charger install pays for itself.
- State electricity rates, editable to your own bill
- Real public network pricing — Supercharger, EA, EVgo
- Home charger install payback period, net of rebates
For used-EV buyers: what the manufacturer's warranty still covers, how a battery reading compares with measured data, and which recalls to ask about.
- Warranty limits read from manufacturer booklets, checked first
- Reading compared with AVILOO's measured medians
- Supplier pack list prices, labelled as such. No invented failure rates
What we decided not to build
Being straight about the cuts, since some of these were previously listed here as coming.
A separate Total Cost of Ownership calculator
Folded into the EV vs hybrid tool instead. That engine already computes economic ownership cost — depreciation, energy, maintenance, tax, insurance and financing — over 3 to 10 years. A second TCO tool would duplicate the maths with its own set of assumptions, and the two would drift apart within a couple of updates. One engine, more country and powertrain modules, is the better shape.
A standalone EV loan calculator
Financing is already an advanced option inside the ownership-cost tool, where it belongs — interest and fees counted, principal not double-counted against depreciation. A generic auto-loan calculator adds nothing anyone can't get from their bank, and we'd rather not compete for a keyword we have no advantage in. Lease vs buy is a genuinely different question, and it will be a guide with a small embedded widget rather than a hub-level tool.
Carbon and solar calculators
Carbon-savings tools are everywhere and rarely change a purchase decision. Solar-plus-EV belongs on SolarNiverse, where the solar data already lives.
How we build these
Sourced defaults
Every pre-filled number carries a source link, a retrieval date and a confidence level. Where a figure is an analyst estimate rather than a published fact, it says so on screen.
Nothing hidden
Assumptions that move the answer — resale value, real-world efficiency, insurance — are visible and editable. If a result depends on a soft number, the tool tells you which one.
No inflated savings
Expired programs show as expired. Lapsed promotional prices fall back to list. "Up to" is never presented as typical. Accuracy is the only real advantage this site has.
Runs in your browser
Calculations happen on your device. Nothing you type is sent to us or anyone else, and no tool asks for an email before showing a result.
Works on a phone
Every tool is tested down to a 320-pixel screen, with keyboard navigation and reduced-motion support, not just a desktop layout squeezed narrower.
Local, not averaged
Prices, tariffs, taxes and depreciation are national. Where a tool covers more than one market, each gets its own data and its own page rather than a worldwide average.
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