{"id":533559,"date":"2023-01-01T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:30:00","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Much Does It Cost to Charge Your Smartphone for a Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af105242fee2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af105242fee2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Much_Does_It_Cost_to_Charge_Your_Smartphone_for_a_Year%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Much Does It Cost to Charge Your Smartphone for a Year?&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/#Smartphones_Use_Shockingly_Little_Energy\" >Smartphones Use Shockingly Little Energy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/#Heres_How_to_Calculate_It_Yourself\" >Here\u2019s How to Calculate It Yourself<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/#Calculate_the_Theoretical_Charge_Cost\" >Calculate the Theoretical Charge Cost<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-your-smartphone-for-a-year\/#Measure_the_Charger_with_a_Watt_Meter\" >Measure the Charger with a Watt Meter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Much_Does_It_Cost_to_Charge_Your_Smartphone_for_a_Year%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Much Does It Cost to Charge Your Smartphone for a Year?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage wp-image-842695 size-full\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/HowMuchPhoneCharge1.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A person putting a phone on a wireless smartphone charger.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/ternopil-ukraine0131-man-charged-smartphone-wireless-1942345288\" data-credittext=\"LL_Studio\/Shutterstock.com\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/ternopil-ukraine0131-man-charged-smartphone-wireless-1942345288\">LL_Studio\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Smartphones are very energy efficient. It costs less than one dollar to completely charge a smartphone battery every day for a whole year. This is true for iPhones, Samsung Galaxy phones, and other Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us charge our phones without a second thought because they\u2019re such an indispensable part of modern life. But how much are we spending annually keeping them fully charged and ready for action?<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Smartphones_Use_Shockingly_Little_Energy\"><\/span>Smartphones Use Shockingly Little Energy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Of all the electric things you use around the home\u2014computers, TVs, smart speakers, even analog things like light bulbs and ceiling fans\u2014we feel supremely confident saying that nothing uses as little energy as your smartphone. This is true whether you\u2019re using an iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy phone, or another type of Android phone.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we\u2019ll just spoil the surprise right out of the gate lest we keep you in too much suspense. You likely pay under a dollar a year to charge your phone. Not under a dollar a week or under a dollar a month. Under a dollar <em>per year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With soaring energy prices and the significant power even idle devices waste, we all should keep an eye on things, but worrying about wasting any money charging your phone shouldn\u2019t be near the top of the list\u2014or on the list at all.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Heres_How_to_Calculate_It_Yourself\"><\/span>Here\u2019s How to Calculate It Yourself<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How can we say so confidently that charging your phone is so cheap? Well, two ways. You can replicate both of them yourself at home.<\/p>\n<p>One requires a little back-of-the-envelope math, and one requires you to use an actual watt meter to monitor your charger. Though, you\u2019ll probably find using a watt meter is far more interesting when you\u2019re measuring bigger devices like televisions.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Calculate_the_Theoretical_Charge_Cost\"><\/span>Calculate the Theoretical Charge Cost<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The most accurate way to measure the cost of charging your smartphone is to use a physical tool to measure the actual power consumption, which takes into account the energy lost in the charging process. But practically speaking, it\u2019s such a small amount of power, and small low-voltage chargers are usually pretty efficient, so there isn\u2019t much overhead.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we feel pretty comfortable using the battery\u2019s capacity as a reference point for calculating how much energy you use to charge it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need to look up your phone battery\u2019s milliamp-hour (mAh) capacity and voltage.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of example, we\u2019ll be using the battery found in the iPhone 13 Pro as a reference point. The iPhone 13 Pro has a 3,095 mAh battery that runs at 3.83 volts.<\/p>\n<p>You can look up the battery capacity of your particular smartphone model and substitute that value in the calculations. Rather than waste time digging through search engine results, we recommend visiting <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/search.php3?\">GSMArena.com<\/a>, a massive phone stats database, and looking up your particular phone model to see the stock battery capacity and more.<\/p>\n<p>The GSMArena stats list not only the mAh value for the battery but the watt-hours (Wh), which will let you skip one of our calculations.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s assume you\u2019re doing it all from scratch. First, we need to figure out how many watt-hours of energy your phone\u2019s battery can store. To do that, we need to first turn the milliamp-hours into watt-hours by multiplying the battery capacity by the voltage and dividing by 1,000.<\/p>\n<p><code>(mAh * V) \/ 1000 = Wh<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Based on that equation, our 3,095 mAh \/ 3.83v iPhone battery has an 11.85 Wh capacity. It\u2019s the same amount of stored energy regardless of how we label it, we\u2019re simply changing the units from mAh to Wh because your electricity use is measured and billed by kilowatts.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s calculate how much it costs you to charge an 11.85 Wh battery, assuming it has been completely depleted. Let\u2019s convert the Wh to kWh, the unit used by your electric company to bill you.<\/p>\n<p><code>Wh \/ 1000 = kWh<\/code><\/p>\n<p>So the capacity of our iPhone battery is 0.019 kWh. You can then, in turn, figure out how much that amount of electricity costs you by referencing your electric bill for the cost-per-kWh value. We\u2019ll use the national average, which is $0.12 per kWh.<\/p>\n<p><code>Battery Capacity in kWh * Cost-per-kWh =\u00a0 Charge Cost<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Our iPhone 13 Pro, based on our perfectly efficient charging scenario here, costs $0.0023 to charge from a completely dead state to a fully charged state.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming you ran your battery down to empty every day of the year and then charged it back up, it would cost you $0.83\u2014not even a dollar.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019re likely not even spending that much. I don\u2019t know about you, but with the bigger batteries on modern smartphones, I rarely run my battery down completely every day and usually put it back on the charger when it\u2019s still around 50% full.<\/p>\n<p>So perpetually topping off half the battery every day only incurs half the charging expense. Meaning, in my case at least, I\u2019m not even spending that 83 cents a year to charge my phone but more like 40-50 cents.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Measure_the_Charger_with_a_Watt_Meter\"><\/span>Measure the Charger with a Watt Meter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>All of the calculations in the previous section are based on the raw numbers and don\u2019t consider any inefficiencies in the charging process.<\/p>\n<p>As we mentioned above, the inefficiency of small phone chargers is pretty trivial, but if you really want to know right down to the $0.001 how much charging your phone costs, you\u2019ll need <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/P3-P4460-Kill-A-Watt-Tm-Ez\/dp\/B01IE05C82?tag=lsmedia-11571-20\">a watt meter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product-box  \">\n<div class=\"product-img product-img-noaward\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/P3-P4460-Kill-A-Watt-Tm-Ez\/dp\/B01IE05C82?tag=lsmedia-11571-20\" onclick=\"fbq('track', 'Buy Button'); if (fb_t_convert){fb_t_convert();}\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41pbgys4VpL._SL160_.jpg\" height=\"147px\" width=\"147px\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typically when you use a watt meter you can get a pretty accurate reading right away. If you want to see how much energy your TV uses, you can just plug it in, turn the TV on, and see how many watts the TV draws under load.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re measuring a charger, you\u2019ll need to leave it connected for at least a full charge cycle. 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