Showing Canada · real 2026 prices
Plug in how you drive and your local prices. We'll show your real yearly running cost, side by side — using current Canadian electricity and fuel figures.
Adjust anything to match your situation.
Estimate only. Excludes purchase price, servicing, registration & insurance. Public fast-charging costs more than home charging. CO₂ is based on standard fuel and grid emission factors for your region.
Transparent maths you can trust — every figure is yours to change.
Your EV's yearly cost is its efficiency over the distance you drive, times your electricity price; the petrol car uses its L/100km and the pump price per litre. CO₂ avoided compares fuel emissions (petrol 2.31 kg/L, diesel 2.68 kg/L) against your provincial grid — Canada averages about 0.13 kg/kWh but it varies enormously, near-zero on the hydro grids of Québec, BC and Manitoba and much higher in Alberta and Saskatchewan, so set your province's figure. The default rate (~16¢/kWh) is a national average. Estimates only, not financial advice.
Charging at home beats gas across most of Canada — but how much depends heavily on your province.
Power is cheap in Québec, BC and Manitoba and pricier in the Maritimes and territories (roughly 8¢ to 40¢+ per kWh), while gas sits around $1.50–1.90 a litre. At a typical home rate an EV runs a fraction of the per-kilometre cost of petrol. Public DC fast charging on FLO, Petro-Canada, Tesla or Electrify Canada runs roughly 35–55¢/kWh — more than home but usually still below gas per kilometre — and overnight time-of-use rates widen the savings further.
Quick answers about EV versus petrol running costs.
For a typical driver charging at home, the electricity for an EV costs roughly a third of the equivalent petrol bill — often less on an off-peak tariff or rooftop solar. The gap narrows if you rely mostly on public fast charging, so the honest answer depends on your tariff, which is why every figure in this calculator is editable.
Both cars use the same simple formula: (distance ÷ 100) × efficiency × energy price. For the EV that’s kWh/100km times your per-kWh electricity price; for the petrol car it’s L/100km times the pump price per litre. No hidden assumptions — the full method is shown on this page.
No — this tool compares energy (running) costs only. Purchase price, insurance, registration and depreciation vary too much by model to generalise. EVs do typically save on servicing as well, so the running-cost gap shown here is usually conservative.
Usually, yes. The comparison is: litres of fuel × 2.31–2.68 kg of CO₂ versus kWh used × your grid’s emissions factor. On most grids the EV comes out well ahead, grids get cleaner every year, and charging from rooftop solar is close to zero-emission driving.
They’re drawn from current public data for the country you select — energy regulators, fuel-price monitors and charging networks, linked in the sources note above. Treat them as sensible starting points and set your own numbers for a result that matches your life.
