{"id":16225,"date":"2023-10-31T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=16225"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:05:08","password":"","slug":"how-much-electricity-does-charging-an-electric-vehicle-consume-compared-to-typical-household-usage","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs\/how-much-electricity-does-charging-an-electric-vehicle-consume-compared-to-typical-household-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"How much electricity does charging an electric vehicle consume compared to typical household usage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of electricity consumed by charging an electric vehicle (EV) depends on the type of vehicle and how it\u2019s driven, much like fuel consumption in a petrol or diesel vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A typical passenger EV, driven 12,000km per year, will consume about 2,000kWh of electricity per year.\u00a0 By comparison, a typical mainland Australian home consumes about 4,000-8,000kWh of electricity per year (depending on whether they use gas for cooking\/heating or not).<\/p>\n<p>Timing of *when* the electricity is consumed to charge the EV has environmental, grid security, and cost implications for the energy system and the consumer \u2013 read more about this in our <a href=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/about-ev\/charging\/\">guide to home EV charging.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of electricity consumed by charging an electric vehicle (EV) depends on the type&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[109,106],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16225","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-charginginfrastructure","doc_category-energyrequirements"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":111,"total_views":"0","reactions":{"happy":"2","normal":"1","sad":"3"},"author_info":{"name":"Bailey Sievewright","author_nicename":"bailey","author_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/author\/bailey\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Charging Infrastructure","term_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs-category\/charginginfrastructure\/"},{"term_name":"Energy Requirements","term_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs-category\/energyrequirements\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17194,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16225\/revisions\/17194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}