I’m looking at a bev for my next car, but I wont have access to a home charger, so it will be public charging for me, looking at the bigger battery enyaq so 150kw 82kwh (125kw) Looking at autotrader based on my average miles so around 200 a week, it says I will have to charge for 1 hour a week on a public charge. Can anyone give me a ballpark price that it would cost me to charge the car for 1 hour? Sorry if this seems a layman question but I have numerical dyslexia and anything I find on the old Internet just looks all jumbled up, and I can’t find anything that just says 1 hour that’s around say £30
Unfortunately you won’t find that answer because it’s not that easy. Even saying 1 hour is somewhat generalised, charging rates are affected by a lot of factors including the car and the charger. 1 hour would be about empty to 90%ish on a good speed rapid charge. The prices for that could be anywhere from 50p up to £1 per unit. That’s a price between £35 and £80 for the full charge. However, if there are slower chargers near enough, and with parking long enough, you could plug in for much longer and you could be looking at as little as £17 or even free if you find one of those very rare freebie chargers in a car park. Skoda also have a Powerpass app that can find chargers where they have a reduced rate. For a monthly fee they get some money knocked off the price per unit and, if all you can do is rapid charge weekly, that might be good value and there will be whatever arrangement Motability have at the time you get the new Enyaq for public charging, seeing as you won’t have a charger. That again will save you some money off the price to charge. Have a look around home and, if you work, where you work. There might be a 7kw charger you can jump on and charge whilst you’re doing something better with your time. I’d also not discount the Enyaq IV 60, the total difference in range between them averages to 59 miles in all conditions. That’s 50 miles in the colder months less in the IV60 and 70 miles less in summer. That’s for a £1,150 saving in AP. So, as you can see from that reply, it’s not a simple answer and I can easily see why some people find it daunting when you’re looking at it for the first time. However, congrats for deciding to go with it anyway, the Enyaq is a lovely car.
with out a home charger I would suggest a car with 22kw onboard simply because most pod points are 22kw, in our nipping to the supermarket and grabbing a quick thing in and out in 18 mins I will plug-in in as pod points are first 15 mins free so I return with about 10 miles more range than I left with. For free