Here’s how much it costs to service every electric car currently available in Australia.
Cost is often considered the biggest barrier to the uptake of electric cars in Australia, with battery-powered vehicles typically attracting a price premium over their fuel-powered counterparts.
However, while the purchase price may be high, electric cars typically have cheaper ongoing running costs than petrol or diesel cars – particularly when it comes to servicing.
For example, the fuel-powered BMW X3 costs $2010 to service over five years, while its electric twin, the BMW iX3, costs $1650 over six years – with service visits only required every two years.
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In fact, the electric cars that are the cheapest to service also happen to be the ones with some of the highest purchase prices.
The Audi e-tron, which starts at $139,900 plus on-road costs, offers free servicing for the first six years, while the Jaguar I-Pace, priced from $142,580 plus on-road costs, provides free servicing for the first five years or 200,000km.
The Polestar 2 and Volvo XC40 Recharge are also offered with complimentary servicing coverage for five and three years, respectively.
Excluding models with free servicing plans, the most affordable electric cars to service in Australia include the MG ZS EV, which costs an annual average of $223 over a six-year period, or the Kia EV6, which costs an annual average of $226 over a seven-year period.
“Electric vehicles have far fewer moving parts than internal combustion-engined cars,” Behyad Jafari, CEO of the Electric Vehicle Council, tells Drive,
“There are less things that can go wrong and the most common maintenance checks – like oil changes – often don’t exist.
“You’ll still need to get your brake pads changed and your tyres might wear out, but not every six months, so service intervals can be a couple of years.”
While electric cars can remove certain servicing issues altogether – like oil changes, or spark plug or fuel filter replacements – they do have their own set of challenges and considerations.
“It’s less about wear and tear and more so to do with faults inside the car,” Mr Jafari says.
“Given electric vehicles are new cars with lots of the latest new technologies, it might be more to do with an alert on your phone telling you something.
“[Unlike internal combustion engine cars] It’s not something the driver has to think about, the car will alert you and do the thinking for you. A lot of electric vehicles the software systems have over-the-air updates too.”
To see the quoted servicing costs for every electric car currently on sale in Australia, keep reading…
| Make and Model | Price (before on-roads) |
Service pricing | Service intervals | Highest av. annual cost* |
| Audi e-tron | From $139,900 | Free for 6 years ($850 every 2 years thereafter) | 24mth/30,000km | $0 |
| BMW iX | From $135,900 | $1520 for 4 years/unlimited km $2195 for 6 years/unlimited km |
12mth/15,000km | $380 |
| BMW iX3 | From $114,900 | $1200 for 4 years/unlimited km $1650 for 6 years/unlimited km |
Condition-based | $300 |
| BMW i4 | From $99,900 | $1240 for 4 years/unlimited km $1765 for 6 years/unlimited km |
Condition-based | $310 |
| BYD Atto 3 | From $44,381 | $945 for 5 years, up to 60,000km (light plan) $1384 for 5 years/100,000km (standard plan) $2390 for 8 years/180,000km (standard plan) |
12mth/20,000km | $299 |
| Hyundai Ioniq 5 | From $69,900 | $660 for 3 years $1684 for 5 years |
12mth/15,000km | $337 |
| Hyundai Kona | From $54,500 | $540 for 3 years $1445 for 5 years |
12mth/15,000km | $289 |
| Jaguar I-Pace | From $142,580 | Free for 5 years/200,000km | 12mth/15,000km | $0 |
| Kia EV6 | From $72,590 | $594 for 3 years $1089 for 5 years $1584 for 7 years |
12mth/15,000km | $226 |
| Kia Niro | From $65,300 | $1164 for 3 years $1728 for 5 years $2803 for 7 years |
12mth/15,00km | $400 |
| Lexus UX300e | From $74,000 | $885 for 3 years $1475 for 5 years |
12mth/15,00km | $295 |
| Mazda MX-30 | From $65,490 | $1273 for 5 years | 12mth/15,00km | $255 |
| Mercedes-Benz EQA | From $78,513 | $1600 for 3 years/75,000km $2200 for 4 years/100,000km $2650 for 5 years/125,000km |
12mth/25,000km | $533 |
| Mercedes-Benz EQB | From $87,800 | $1625 for 3 years $2225 for 4 years $2650 for 5 years |
12mth/25,000km | $556 |
| Mercedes-Benz EQC | From $122,724 | $1650 for 3 years/75,000km $2250 for 4 years/100,000km $2650 for 5 years/125,000km |
12mth/25,000km | $550 |
| Mercedes-Benz EQS | From $328,400 | $1750 for 3 years $2750 for 4 years $3250 for 5 years |
12mth/15,000km | $687 |
| MG ZS EV | From $46,990 | $1340 for 6 years $2951 for 14 years |
24mth/20,000km | $223 |
| Mini Cooper Electric | From $55,650 | $940 for 4 years $1280 for 6 years |
Condition-based | $235 |
| Nissan Leaf | From $50,900 | $852 for 3 years $1841 for 6 years |
12mth/20,000km | $307 |
| Polestar 2 | From $63,900 | Free for 5 years/100,000km | 12mth | $0 |
| Porsche Taycan | From $158,100 | $790 for 3 years $1185 for 5 years |
24mth/30,000km | $263 |
| Tesla Model S | TBC | Not supplied | Condition-based – see here | N/A |
| Tesla Model X | TBC | Not supplied | Condition-based – see here | N/A |
| Tesla Model Y | From $72,300 | Not supplied | Condition-based – see here | N/A |
| Tesla Model 3 | From $65,500 | Not supplied | Condition-based – see here | N/A |
| Volvo XC40 Recharge | From $72,990 | Free for 3 years/100,00km | 24mth/30,000km | $0 |
* Highest annual average cost was calculated by taking an annual average from the most expensive pre-paid or capped-price servicing plan available. It doesn’t account for servicing costs beyond the stipulated pre-paid or capped-price servicing term.
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