EV vs hybrid vs petrol cost comparison

Because there is no single figure to quote. Annual vehicle tax is set per province, and the reductions battery EVs receive have changed more than once. The number on your STNK, or the one quoted for the car you are considering, is the only one worth putting in.

Estimate what a restricted day actually costs you — a taxi both ways, a longer route, or a day of lost time — and how many days a month it happens. If you never drive in a restricted zone, leave the days at zero and the row stays at Rp 0 for all three.

Because it usually does. Over five typical years the gap between purchase price and resale value is often larger than fuel, tax and servicing combined, which is why comparing running costs alone tends to flatter whichever car is cheapest to fuel. Resale value is the field most worth researching before you trust the total.

Because there is little on it to service. An EV has no engine oil, filters, spark plugs, timing belt, exhaust or multi-speed gearbox to maintain, so most items on its service schedule are inspections rather than replacements. What does cost money is brakes — not from wear, since regenerative braking does most of the slowing, but from calipers seizing through disuse, so they need periodic cleaning and lubrication — plus the small 12-volt battery that still runs the car's electronics, and tyres. Enter the figure from the service booklet or dealer quote for the car you are considering rather than assuming zero.

Because the fuel price you enter is the pump price, which already includes tax. The PLN tariff does not: on a prepaid token, PPJ is deducted from the value before the rest converts to kWh, and above 6,600 VA that band's PPN applies too. Without this field the EV column would look cheaper purely for a missing line. Enter the gap measured on your own token — its value divided by the kWh credited, against the base tariff. Public charging has its own fields: set the share you charge at an SPKLU and its all-in rate, and this tax applies to home charging only.

Insurance is the annual all-risk premium you are quoted; for comparable cars it is set mostly by the car's value, so it follows the price rather than the drivetrain — the defaults sit at roughly 2.5% of each price. The home charger is a one-off: the wallbox, the wiring from your meter, and often a PLN power upgrade, since a 7 kW charger does not fit on a small connection. It ranges from nothing when a dealer bundles the wallbox and your panel is next to the garage to several million rupiah when it is not, which is why the default is zero — get a quote. If you cannot charge at home at all, set the SPKLU share to 100% and most of the EV's energy saving goes with it.

Permen ESDM 1/2023 sets the energy at SPKLU stations at Rp 2,466.78 per kWh, with 11% PPN on top — Rp 2,738 per kWh, the default here. Fast and ultra-fast chargers may add a service fee of up to Rp 25,000 and Rp 57,000 per session; operators can charge less, and PLN Mobile shows the fee before you start. Topping up 40 kWh with the full Rp 25,000 fee works out at about Rp 3,360 per kWh, so if you fast-charge often in small sessions, enter the higher figure. Against a home tariff of roughly Rp 2,000 per kWh after tax, every tenth of your charging moved to an SPKLU raises the EV's energy bill by about 4%. The default share of 10% stands for road trips; a driver without a home charger should set it to 100.

Because the prices behind those stories are reversed. A widely watched Canadian owner logged 207,000 km over seven years on receipts and paid for electricity about 18% of what the same distance would have cost in petrol — cheap hydro power against taxed fuel. Run the same 207,000 km through this calculator's defaults and the picture changes: about Rp 64 million of electricity against Rp 176 million of Pertalite for a car using 8.5 litres per 100 km, or roughly 36%. Indonesian petrol is subsidised and household electricity is not, so the saving is real — around Rp 112 million over that distance — but converting a foreign dollar figure at the exchange rate would overstate it about twice over. What does carry over is the method: add up what you actually pay per kilometre, and charge at home wherever you can.