How much does it cost to charge a Fiat 500e?

A full charge for a 2024–2026 Fiat 500e FWD costs about $7.78 at home, at the US average residential electricity rate of 18¢/kWh. A 2013–2019 Fiat 500e costs $4.54 to fill at the same rate.

That full charge draws roughly 43 kWh from the wall and buys 149 miles of EPA-rated range — about $0.052 a mile. Filling up the 2024–2026 Fiat 500e costs $5.34 in Idaho, the cheapest state, and $14.37 in California.

What it costs to charge a 2013–2019 Fiat 500e

At the US average rate of 18¢/kWh, a full charge of a 2013–2019 Fiat 500e costs $4.54, against $7.78 for the 2024–2026 Fiat 500e above. Per 100 miles it runs $5.22 to $5.40, against $5.22.

The first 500e was a different car on a different platform, and it is the one most people find on the used market. Per mile it costs almost exactly what the current car does — 29 or 30 kWh per 100 miles against 29 — but its 84 to 87 miles of EPA range mean a full charge draws only about 25 kWh from the wall, a little over half the current car’s fill. That makes it the cheapest car to fill on this site and no cheaper to drive a mile. Its rating slipped for 2016, from 29 kWh per 100 miles and 87 miles of range to 30 and 84.

EPA combined figures for each model year, from fueleconomy.gov, checked September 2026. Per month at 12,000 miles a year. Pick any of these versions in the calculator above to price it at your own rate.

What it costs at three real electricity rates

Your rate is the only input that really moves this number, so here is the same car at three real ones — the cheapest state, the national average, and the most expensive large mainland market.

Hawaii is higher still at 52¢ — a 4.2:1 spread from the cheapest state to the dearest. EPA figures checked September 2026; electricity rates checked August 2026.

What it costs per mile

A Fiat 500e costs about $0.052 a mile to charge at home at the US average electricity rate, or $5.22 per 100 miles. That is energy only — the EPA rates this car at 29 kWh per 100 miles measured at the wall socket, so charging losses are already inside the figure and should not be added again.

Per mile is the number that survives a change of car: it does not care about battery size, so it is the only fair way to line this car up against one with a much bigger or smaller pack.

What it adds to your electricity bill

Charging a Fiat 500e at home adds about $52 a month to your electricity bill at the US average rate, driving 12,000 miles a year. That is the yearly cost of $626 spread evenly across twelve months — a month with a road trip in it costs more, and a quiet one costs less.

Nothing else on the bill changes: the car draws the same kilowatt-hours whatever else is running in the house, so the increase is the charging and nothing more.

At the cheapest state rate the same driving adds $36 a month, and $96 at the most expensive — the table above has all three. If your utility offers an overnight or time-of-use rate, charging on it lands at the low end rather than the middle.

Where the numbers come from

The EPA rates this FWD at 29 kWh per 100 miles with 149 miles of combined range. Those two figures together give the energy for a full charge, which is where the 43 kWh above comes from.

We work it out that way rather than quoting a battery size on purpose. Manufacturers publish gross capacity, which includes a buffer at each end of the pack that never takes a charge, so a cost built on it overstates your bill. And the EPA measures at the wall socket rather than at the battery, so charging losses are already inside the figure — no need to add them, and adding them would count the same loss twice.

What this means for this car

The 500e makes the gap between cost per charge and cost per mile easy to see. Its full charge is the smallest of any current car on this site — about 43 kWh at the wall to cover its 149-mile EPA range, well under half of what a Cadillac Lyriq takes — yet at 29 kWh per 100 miles each mile costs more than it does in a Tesla Model 3, a Toyota bZ or a Lexus RZ, all far larger cars. Small does not automatically mean frugal: the 500e is rated level with a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Standard Range and within one kWh of a Kia EV6. What its short range changes is how often you plug in, not what each mile costs. The version the EPA lists as the 500e All Season is rated 31 kWh per 100 miles with 141 miles of range, about 7% more energy per mile, so that choice costs something every year. The 2013–2019 500e below is a different car with the same appetite per mile and a little over half the range.

How it compares

All at 18¢/kWh and 12,000 miles a year. The gas comparison is illustrative — it is not a claim about any particular car.

Figures are for the 2024–2026 Fiat 500e FWD, plus the 2013–2019 Fiat 500e versions tabled above. Other trims of the same car are rated differently — see above. How these figures are calculated.