Ownership duration: 1 Yr 2Months - 6600Km
Total savings - 16,000 rupees ( in my case ) + the money I would have spent servicing my previous ICE bike = 19,0000 Rupees
I moved to the ather 450 from my 3 year old Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 which used to give me an average of 30Kmpl and if i had continued to use my bike, i would have consumed about 6600/30= 220 Litres of Petrol taking an average of about 80 rupees to the litre. it would have costed me about Rs 17,600 Since i started riding my ather – since i dont really have a track of the number of units my Ather charger consumes, but i hope i can round it down to about 50Km on a charge and taking a nice margin of 700Wh taking 3 units for every 50km, ive consumed about 396 units ~ 400 Units of electricity. now going a bit off topic. i live in an independent house and i have an extra meter for a rented room which isn’t in use so i’ve pulled a line from that meter so that pre ather bill isn’t affected by a ton and i also have a motor, an AC and a treadmill on this connection. the tariffs in my area are about 3.75 rupees for the first 30 units and 5.2 Rupees from 30-100 units and on most months I use under 30 units and rarely over. 30 units. this a bill of that meter. i used about 30units a month regularly. but i use the motor and treadmill on a daily basis now which take a significant amount of the consumption, this is to show the cost i pay for my units So personally for me of these 400 units- majority of them have come at 3.75 ruppes/unit so in my case my running cost has been 3.75*400 = ~ Rs 1,500 thats takes savings to 17,600-1,500 = 16,000 Rupees in savings in just over a year. and all this savings is right into my pocket since i sold my bike at 1.2Lakhs and put that same money into the Ather 450 + ghe portable charger. I understand that most people will pay about 6 rupees per unit and taking that, the running cost of the 450 comes to about Rs 2,400 so the savings become 17,600-2,400 = 15000 rupees in savings. scenario 2 to help people who will be moving from another ICE scooter. your scooter would give you about 40kmpl and doing the calculations your ICE would cost 13000 rupees to run for 6500Km not even considering the service costs involved and taking 2400 rupees as the EV running cost. you have a saving of over 10,000 rupees. considering the average activa and ather 450 are separated by 1.13L- 0.83L = 30,000 rupees so it would take you about 3 years to make up on the higher base price for the 450X owners, i’d suggest you compare to the closer performance oriented APRILLIA SR 150 which costs about 1.3L on road and 450 X at 1.7L thats about 40k which you’ll make back in abour 4 years or about 25000Km of usage not to mention the service costs involved in th ICE and the added features in the 450X.
Note : I know a lot of these calculation are very rough and a ton of approximations, any suggestions on corrections. please do DM me. I’m open to any corrections. Lets keep this thread clean for the future EV owners who’d like to understand the ownership model. And do share your own EV story and savings Ciao