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What home EV charging costs, state by state

Charging an electric car at home is buying electricity by the kWh, so the state average price prices the charge. At the 2024 U.S. average of 16.48¢ per kWh, a full 60 kWh charge costs $9.89 and 1,000 miles of driving costs about $54.93. The same charge runs $6.91 in North Dakota and $25.72 in Hawaii. Every price below is EIA's published state average; the driving arithmetic is labeled where it rests on an assumption.

Prices: EIA-861 Table 5A state averages (the District of Columbia row is included from the same table). The 60 kWh column is the price times 60 kWh — a typical full charge for a mainstream EV battery. The per-1,000-miles column assumes 3.0 miles per kWh (333 kWh per 1,000 miles), a mid-range efficiency for current EVs; your car's figure is on its window sticker and in its trip computer. Both cost columns are arithmetic on the published price, not a separate EIA series.

How to read this table against your own bill

• The average price is a blend. It includes the fixed monthly customer charge spread over all kWh sold, so the marginal cost of one more kWh on your own tariff is usually a little lower than the state average — and time-of-use plans move it further. Use the table to rank states and size the cost, not to audit a specific bill.
• Charging losses are real but small. A few percent of the energy drawn is lost as heat in charging; the table prices energy drawn from the wall at the stated efficiency assumption, so treat the figures as planning numbers.
• Public charging is a different price. EIA publishes residential averages, not public-charging prices — networks set those per kWh or per minute, state by state and operator by operator, and no official average exists. We publish none.
• The comparison that matters is your gasoline habit. Price your old car's fuel cost per 1,000 miles from your own receipts against the right-hand column for your state; the gap, times your annual mileage, is the home-charging saving.

Sources: EIA — Electric Sales, Revenue & Average Price 2024, Table 5A (Form EIA-861). Researched October 2026 — energy prices move with seasons and markets; confirm the current rate on your own bill.

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