Across 20,400 car-and-state combinations

What does it really cost to charge your EV?

99%are cheaper to charge at home than to fuel with petrol

$1,478saved a year in the middle case, at 15,000 miles

Charging cost swings with your state electricity rate and your car efficiency, so one national number tells you nothing. This crosses real EIA rates for all 51 states with EPA ratings for 400 EV models — state-average estimates, not your own utility bill. Free, no email.

The spread is the whole point

Charging the same car costs wildly different amounts depending on the state you plug it in. Per 100 miles, averaged across every model here:

Cheapest states

Most expensive

Your car, your state

Type either one — a model or a state — and pick the pair.

400 EV models × 51 states, from EPA efficiency ratings and EIA electricity prices.

Browse all 20,400 combinations

The question this site answers

"Is an EV cheaper to charge than gas" doesn't have one national answer, it depends on your state's electricity rate and the specific EV's efficiency. ChargeCostFinder crosses real EIA residential electricity rates for all 51 states with real EPA efficiency ratings for 400 current EV models, giving 20,400 real state-and-model answers instead of one blended figure.

Home charging isn't always the cheaper answer

Of the 20,400 combinations tracked here, 20,101 come out cheaper to charge at home than to fuel with gas, and the rest don't, a high-price state paired with a low-efficiency model can genuinely cost more per mile to charge. Nothing here is clamped to make EVs win.

Start with your state and your model

Pick your state to see every EV model's cost there, or pick a model to see how it fares across every state, either way you get the per-mile, per-year, and per-full-charge dollar figures, not an average.