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This will vary fairly widely based on electricity pricing in your area, and ambient temperatures. Batteries are less efficient in cold weather, and have to maintain minimum temperatures.
Here in AZ for instance, we pay about 13 cents, and temperatures are usually warmer than in OP's use case. If you're in an area that tends to have higher gas prices or prices that swing up and down a lot that will also have a fairly large effect on the comparison for you.
Pricing should be more stable than gas overall though either way since electricity pricing is usually pretty stable for the consumer, outside of Texas that is.
The /c/technology discussion also brought up many examples of nighttime charge / time of use electric plans.
Depending on your country or other locations, you might have substantial savings for night time off peak savings.
I can drop from 17.1c to 12c night time / off-peak charging for example. But my on peak / daytime charge skyrockets to 28c.