Chuck in the lack of tax and you’re still well up on a similarly fast ICE car. But yeah, it’s always frustrating for those who want to eat their cake and have it too.
Easy enough not to use rip-off chargers.
It would be good if you could filter on apps like Zap-map by price, so these ones can be excluded
My energy reports that a full charge of a 54kw battery will cost around £54 with rapid charger that you are having to pay for, as in not from your own solar panels. This will give you a range of 211 miles in perfect condition. Which means if you are having to pay for using a charger like this, then it is actually more expensive that filling a car up with patrol for the same mileage.
Even is you are charging at home, the cost of charging a 54kw battery is going to be around £25, for roughly 200 miles, as where petrol for a 1.3 engine at 50mpg would cost around £29. The savings on EV is getting smaller. Obviously it works out a lot cheaper if you are using solar panels or charging on economy 7
You do seem to like writing angrily about anything even a little bit new don’t you Ted. Did you give up flying when they brought in IFR because you don’t trust the existence of radar because “you can’t see it”? 😂
Or you could go to lidl, pay 28p per kwh, and spend the rest on pastries.
Thank god they only get their power from renewables
BP Pulse chargers at most cost 69p/kWh, Shell no more than 65p, Instavolt 66p, and the chargers at my nearest Tesco’s are free.
Given my car’s mpKwh, even if I charge overnight on a normal plug socket with the new price cap (and no special night tariff), it works out cheaper per mile than my previous petrol car with current prices.
On top of all of the above, my local council currently give people free charging if they park in one of their car parks, so I’m yet to use any charging network (and I get free charging on all three of them as part of my car deal)
I think the one charging network in the article might be an outlier… Granted, if that’s the only option in your area that’s a bit of a problem…
They wrote why it’s happened in their email
Cost per kWh is nearing £1 for businesses, are they meant to just make a loss on every charge instead?
It’s good that they’re calling out the government for their handling of the situation IMO
EV’s, more expensive to buy. The cost of replacing batteries is so expensive that the cost would have covered all servicing costs of a ICE. EV battery production is damaging to the planet and the disposal of the old batteries is a slow and costly process. Tyres are more expensive if you buy the specialist EV tyres, and if you use regular tyres on an EV, they will wear out 20% faster than on an ICE car. Also if the energy crisis does continue and we end up having power cuts, how will you charge your EV’s?
I know petrol is bad for the planet, but EV’s are not the answer either.
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So a full charge is about £70.
Chuck in the lack of tax and you’re still well up on a similarly fast ICE car. But yeah, it’s always frustrating for those who want to eat their cake and have it too.
Easy enough not to use rip-off chargers.
It would be good if you could filter on apps like Zap-map by price, so these ones can be excluded
My energy reports that a full charge of a 54kw battery will cost around £54 with rapid charger that you are having to pay for, as in not from your own solar panels. This will give you a range of 211 miles in perfect condition. Which means if you are having to pay for using a charger like this, then it is actually more expensive that filling a car up with patrol for the same mileage.
Even is you are charging at home, the cost of charging a 54kw battery is going to be around £25, for roughly 200 miles, as where petrol for a 1.3 engine at 50mpg would cost around £29. The savings on EV is getting smaller. Obviously it works out a lot cheaper if you are using solar panels or charging on economy 7
You do seem to like writing angrily about anything even a little bit new don’t you Ted. Did you give up flying when they brought in IFR because you don’t trust the existence of radar because “you can’t see it”? 😂
Or you could go to lidl, pay 28p per kwh, and spend the rest on pastries.
Thank god they only get their power from renewables
BP Pulse chargers at most cost 69p/kWh, Shell no more than 65p, Instavolt 66p, and the chargers at my nearest Tesco’s are free.
Given my car’s mpKwh, even if I charge overnight on a normal plug socket with the new price cap (and no special night tariff), it works out cheaper per mile than my previous petrol car with current prices.
On top of all of the above, my local council currently give people free charging if they park in one of their car parks, so I’m yet to use any charging network (and I get free charging on all three of them as part of my car deal)
I think the one charging network in the article might be an outlier… Granted, if that’s the only option in your area that’s a bit of a problem…
They wrote why it’s happened in their email
Cost per kWh is nearing £1 for businesses, are they meant to just make a loss on every charge instead?
It’s good that they’re calling out the government for their handling of the situation IMO
EV’s, more expensive to buy. The cost of replacing batteries is so expensive that the cost would have covered all servicing costs of a ICE. EV battery production is damaging to the planet and the disposal of the old batteries is a slow and costly process. Tyres are more expensive if you buy the specialist EV tyres, and if you use regular tyres on an EV, they will wear out 20% faster than on an ICE car. Also if the energy crisis does continue and we end up having power cuts, how will you charge your EV’s?
I know petrol is bad for the planet, but EV’s are not the answer either.