Yet it’s currently costing me 2.64p/kWh for electricity, and the price will fall further into the night, yet my gas is 2.90p/kWh (fully carbon offset).
Perhaps that’s why my gas central heating is off & my electric fan heaters are keeping the place warm.
I’ll be charging the car when the price goes below 0.01p/kWh from 03:30-05:30 and from 06:00-06:30 which will easily charge to 100%.
It would appear that because it’s windy there’s a glut of wind power available, and at zero cost it’d be rude not to charge the car with it
Please don’t all rush to get an EV, after all, I’m quite happy with trying to use up the glut of free electricity…
Carl, you’re right to be concerned about some ultra rapids costing a lot (Ionity charges 69p/kWh in the UK, although you can use ChargeCard to get it for 58p/kWh or pick up a car with a discounted rate), but, you can look at this in a different way….
… Imagine 90% of the electric you use for charging the car coming from your domestic supply, either on a special cheap night rate (5p/kWh is possible) or an agile rate such as I use, it costs very little to charge your car for most of your journeys. Then, you want to go away on holiday & you’ll have to pay for the rapid chargers, but over a year that’s a fraction of your costs remember. There’s the alternative of 50kW rapids at cheaper prices if you must attempt to spend less, but it may cost you more time, it depends on what’s important for you.
And here i am at the end of this message & electricity is now at 2.01p/kWh… I’m nice & toasty.