Many EV drivers look at it a different way, with most journeys being covered by home charging at 5 – 15p per kW/h, then only on occasion use the public charge network of Fast & Rapid chargers which are pricey (e.g. Shell recharge – 39p per kW/h, BP – 15p per kW/h for Polar Plus members else more, and Ionity running at 69p per kW/h (use a Maingau card if you use Ionity a lot at the moment to get it cheaper). As you’d only very occasionally be using the public charger network then you’d not mind paying some of these very expensive prices.
If you only use public chargers then it’s going to be a lot more expensive in time & money than petrol or diesel currently.
There’s another potential cost too depending on which chargers you use, that of parking fees. If you’re lucky you’ll find a “Blue Badge Holders exemption” from these costs, but you then need to be careful as some of these exemptions only apply to disabled spaces, & there’s perhaps 1 or 2 disabled spaces with chargers in the UK.
EVs are not going to be an easy option for many of us & anyone thinking of going down the EV path at the present time needs to do a lot of research. In perhaps 5 years we’ll all wonder what all the range anxiety and public charger networks that were unreliable were all about….. or it’ll be just as bad as it is now with lazy local politicians who block EV charging post installations (just get Extinction Rebellion to blockade their driveway with a yacht or something, I guess, to change their minds).
Hastings, you look at it on a map of chargers and it looks very good, you turn up to charge & find that the CYC chargers don’t work, and they won’t be repaired because Hastings Council is pleading poverty saying it can’t afford the bill to repair them. You can find many other places around the UK who have taken grant monies & had these chargers installed where they wanted & now these councils refuse to pay to maintain them. Problem is they’re really in the wrong places to be truly useful as you need destination (7kW) chargers at destinations, and rapid chargers en route, and seaside towns are destinations, look at Brighton and all the available destination chargers, and one rapid charger that is currently off limits due to the coronavirus. Trouble is it’s not that the council in Brighton are blessed with some strange foresight, it’s because many of the councilors are green warriors who drive EVs and know what chargers are needed.