{"id":357635,"date":"2026-03-21T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:25:09","slug":"electric-vehicles-or-petrol-cars-which-is-cheaper-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357635\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric vehicles or petrol cars \u2013 which is cheaper to run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We did a like-for-like comparison between the Hyundai Kona petrol and the Kona Electric, factoring in everything from charging costs to insurance\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EV cars aren't always a big cost-saver. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/756e4396-643e-4a7d-ac68-eeebef3313ec.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">EV cars aren&#8217;t always a big cost-saver. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The conflict in Iran and rising fuel prices are likely to accelerate the shift away from petrol cars, but how much could you actually save by opting for an electric car?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A like\u2011for\u2011like comparison between the Hyundai Kona petrol and the Kona Electric shows that while savings are possible, they are not guaranteed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We did a like-for-like comparison between the Hyundai Kona petrol and the Kona Electric, factoring in everything from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,7781,11713,61,60],"class_list":["post-357635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-geraldine-herbert","tag-hyundai","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}