Furious Sheffield taxi driver says he is going ‘back to diesel’ due to soaring electric car charging costs | The Star

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  1. > He added: “I thought it was really cost effective but I didn’t do my homework on all the pros and cons.

    At least he’s aware he fucked up.

  2. Ioniq4 should be able to do ~160miles even in the depths of wnter (close to 200 in summer) so not sure where this is coming from:

    > The car’s range is 130 miles but that can fall by 10 miles if he has the heating on and a further five if its cold outside because the battery doesn’t work as well,

  3. Not sure how the price of wind keeps rising. The energy companies are having a joke at our expense. I’ll vote for the first party who says they’ll tax them on their windfalls or cap price rises on energy produced by renewables.

  4. This is because the public chargers cost a fortune and take a long time to charge up.

    He has a choice, either charge up at home or charge little and more often so he’s not wasting time.

    My best mate has an EV mini for him to do 100 miles it costs him £10 and X amount of time on a public charger. For me in my diesel to get 100 miles it costs me £13 and takes a matter of minutes.

    He should have bought a hybrid as this would give him better range and drop his costs.

  5. Guy buys a car with a range half his daily mileage, that can charge at 69kWh but only has access to 20kWh charging at premium prices because he lives in a flat. Genius.

  6. I feel for the guy, but if he’s on public chargers and not at home he’s doing it to himself.

    It’s like deciding your only ever going to do your shopping at motorway services.

  7. Good size diesel cars are doing 60+mpg, buy one registered before 2017 and the road tax is only £30ish a year. For me a diesel is the best choice. Especially when electric company’s themselves are saying the grid isn’t strong enough etc.

  10. Amazingly this is still a lot better researched than most Daily Mail articles!
    They’re not really blaming the car – he admits it’s his fault for not researching it. Though the article could state other EV’s have more range – and if charged at home on an off-peak tariff he could save a lot of £

    There are still other slow 7kw chargers that are about 35p/kWh from some companies. It’s just that one that has doubled. An off-peak Tesla one might be in his location and that can apparently now charge non Tesla’s.

    It would be better for him if:

    1. he’d bought a plugin hybrid or just a hybrid (given he has nowhere cheap to charge it)
    2. he’d done some research
    3. bought a car with more range. The ioniq is very efficient but has only 28kWh battery (base model)

  11. Absolutely. First, you pay 10k more for the car, and then the rapid charging is more expensive and takes longer than diesel.

    Oh, and it is Ioniq.

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