Lot of doom and glom on here regarding the original question.
The reality is if you have an EV or want to buy one charging is not costly if you get a home charging point installed.
We spent £1k of our own money getting one installed but have a deal on the electricity to charge fixed for 12 months with Octopus @8.25p per kW hr so a 5 hr charge would put 35 kW into the car battery giving 140 miles of range @ a cost of £2.88.
My Previous car a Tiguan 2.0 diesel automatic did 40 mpg which would use 3,5 gall at £1.80 pl £28.35.
So much cheaper than a diesel car even allowing for us spending £1k on the charger that will be recovered in no time as we do around 5k miles a year that’s £120 per annum in EV charges v £1012 in diesel. So by year 2 we are saving £1k per annum running the ev.
Any EV owner can get a deal on charging and would be daft not to rather than pay the stupid current public charger prices of around 60p kW hr which then means the cost EV v Diesel is much closer and once public chargers hit 80p or more it’s cost neutral.
Electricity/Petrol & diesel prices will come down in the next year or so and would still expect EV to be cheaper. However there are other reasons for going EV and I know I much prefer an EV over an ICE car and would not go back unless I absolutely had too.