1400km (870 mile) EV v Diesel challenge! There was just $5 between them...the results surprised!

So, everybody says that EVs are cheaper to run. We wanted to put that theory to the test over an extended road trip. We drove between Adelaide (in Australia...) and Sydney, which is around 1400km in a diesel Audi Q5 and a full electric Kia EV6 to see how inconvenient a regional road trip would be in an EV and also how much cheaper the road trip would be. The results were surprising!

Skip Ahead:
Intro: 00:00
On the road 1:49
Stop 1 - Tailem Bend 3:37
Stop 2 - Ouyen 6:47
Stop 3 - Hay 8:43
Stop 4 - Tarcutta 11:46
Stop 5 - Sutton Forest 12:55
Verdict and costs 14:38

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Paul Maric:

#kia #audi #ev #diesel #challenge

[CarExpertAus]

Thanks for the great feedback everybody! Glad you enjoyed the video - it was all for a bit of fun. A lot of you asked about the hybrid support car. It was carrying a stack of gear and spare wheels - it used 7.8L/100km over 1429km. Total cost for fuel was $211, which was around $.147/km.

[cratra]

I feel a lot of people will unnecessarily spend a lot more on food whilst waiting longer at charge up stations with an EV.

[iarnedo]

The Q5 managed to do 1429km on a single fuel tank? That's remarkable, even if we take into account the slow speed. Great comparison vid guys

[caldeer]

I'm not sure the results were surprising - long trip with highway driving puts the combustion car in its most efficient scenario against an EV in its least efficient scenario - 1400km in city driving would be interesting. It was an enjoyable video and good to see there is actually enough chargers to do the trip albeit the infrastructure still has a long way to go. Maybe a Sydney to Brisbane run up the Pacific Highway where charger accessibility should be a bit

[FTragic]

Thanks boys, that looked like a lot of fun but I would like to see you do a similar run without traveling at reduced speed to save fuel or battery range in those vehicles. Give us a real life comparison of them at normal highway speed and without trying to better each other.

[BoskiM]

A similar experiment was done in the UK by a journalist on his YouTube channel. It turned out that the electric was even more expensive by £5 compared to the diesel. So with fuel prices and electric costs, buying an ev doesn't make economical sense. As for me I will stick with combustion engines until the foreseeable future

[ChrisPudney]

Wow! The EV6 was still cheaper than the Q5 even though the most expensive fast-chargers were used and the Q5 was driven at a snail's pace. Plus the EV6 would be cleaner, quieter, safer, more performance and better tech 😁

[dodgywheelsandropeywiring]

Surely had you gone the more popular main route you'd have had to wait for other EV drivers to charge their cars and you'd have lost by a long, long way.

[BrentonStringer]

Great video and very surprising result. It was a great way to show the price difference if you both take about the same amount of time.

[tepidtuna]

I have to admit I was stunned at the cost of charging. Almost the same as the diesel. I expected $30-50.

[johnlenneberg]

Love the video, the banter, the format, more of these please :) And shocked at the recharge prices of EV's. Perhaps an every day, one month around the home and the city comparison costs video. EV vs Petrol vs Deisel. Let's find the true cost of EV.

[UYTFlower]

Every diesel car owner I talked with love their diesols. great MPG, longevity, and low cost. To bad they are sold in CA anymore.

[rcshane]

Great video clearly demonstrates in simple stats that ice and ev vehicles excel in different ways it's hard to beat an ice on the hwy, but ev will dominate in stop start city commutes. So buy in line with what U do most often and I'll be happy! This video shows the penalty for an ev in hwy use, which is still not quite ideal yet.

[Bnm-fkfi]

Enjoyed this video. One thing to remember is that Alborz probably paid $50 in road tax with the fuel cost that supposedly goes towards maintaining the roads we use. Nothing from EV’s as yet. Still to come 😁

[SuperLloyd]

Next one should be an urban challenge between these cars. It'd be interesting to quantify the difference between a diesel and an EV when stop start driving is involved.

[manishkumar]

This is on another level, highly entertaining. That banana headshot had me in stitches 😂

[Kvickification]

This video highlights some of the issues you can run into with an EV. Unplanned problems like, closed roads, detours, traffic jams and lack of fast charging etc. Ive had an EV but i sold it, went back to Diesel. I planned a trip where i always had 5-10% range spare. At the first charger, none of the 6 fast chargers worked due software problems/connection to the internet or whatever the heck it was. I therefore had to detour to a small town with a super slow 22kW AC charger to get enough juice for the next stop. When i reach the 2nd charge stop, there was a 1 hour queue as all the stalls where taken with a large queue expanding by the minute. Last charge stop was the worst, the planned charger had been removed and was not updated as been removed, i searched all over town for a charger but all of them where either offline or having connection issue/app issues - after an hour searching i found a motel that had mercy on me and let my charge without staying at the motal. I have never been so frustrated in my entire life and after 1 year i could not take it anymore and sold it. I would split the blame into these categories - 10% buggy car software, 20% bad range and 70% terrible/unreliable chargers and lack there of.

[chrispnw]

The original primary rationale for EVs was the lower emissions (daily use) impact to the environment. This test demonstrates the importance of unbiased and fact-based cradle to grave information to assess the true value of transitioning to EV vehicles. I am a strong proponent of no banning of petrol vehicles but allowing both to exist as options. Over time cost savings and other factors will determine the best option. Great review.

[jashmatash]

Good video team. EVs, at this point in time, are most suitable for short-distance urban driving, not traversing the vast expanse that is Australia's regions.

As car markets evolve overtime to incorporate more and more EVs, it will be the cities where it is more pronounced.

[NjabuloNxele]

The real benefit of EVs is home charging. Using an EV day to day for work and school runs, it should be way cheaper than an ICE vehicle