EV Running Costs by Model

Two numbers per car, both from a single published test: AUTO BILD drove 21 electric cars over the same 155 km route, measured what each one used, and turned that into a cost for 100 km at 31.1 cents per kWh. That price is the German average for existing customers on 2026-08-17 according to Strom-Report.com; the article is dated 2026-08-18 and was read on 2026-09-03. The consumption is measured, not derived, and that is the whole point of this table. The dataset this family replaces carried a summer and a winter figure for 281 models that looked like measurements and were not: they were the catalogue WLTP value times 1.08 and times 1.38, the same two constants on every row, with the ev-database.org homepage cited for all of them. A seasonal factor that never varies by car cannot tell you anything about your car, so there is no winter column here. The surcharge is a field in the calculator above, with the measured ADAC ranges printed beside it. What this table cannot do is rank the cars against each other. The test temperature ranges from −2 °C for the Skoda Elroq to 21 °C for the BMW iX1, and part of the gap between two rows is weather rather than engineering. The fourth column carries the temperature wherever AUTO BILD states it; for ten of the 21 cars it does not. Charging losses are not in these costs, and AUTO BILD says so itself. The ADAC measures 5.1 to 7.0 % on an 11 kW wallbox and 12.7 to 24.2 % on a household socket; add yours in the calculator. 20 of the 21 cars have their own page. The VW ID.Buzz does not: 30.7 kWh at 31.1 cents is €9.55, the article prints €9.67, and for the other twenty the sum comes out to the cent. Which of the two figures is wrong the source does not say, so the row stays and the page does not.