One year/20k miles into our EV here, and I’ve found the infrastructure to be really good. We live in a fairly remote part of North Wales so there’s not much on the doorstep exactly, but there’s a rank of 10 Tesla superchargers ten miles away open to all EVs, and the app tells you how many are unoccupied so it’s never guesswork. 59p/kWh so about £15 ‘for a full tank’
Trips done recently:
Manchester, charge at home did there and back with plenty to spare. Lots of chargers in every part of the city and at the services along the way
Sheffield, charge at home, hotel had ev chargers, stopped the next morning on the way home for a coffee and there were chargers there so plugged in for 20 mins
Brighton, stopped at Birmingham Tesla to charge, got a burger, stopped at Tesla just outside London, had a stroll round the shops. Coming back stopped at the same two again, total public charging cost was £22 for the trip plus a tenner of electric at home, £32 total, last time I did this in a petrol car I spent £100 on fuel there and back.
I’m not totally sold on EV but the scaremongering is crazy, ‘what happens when you run out of charge’ is all anyone asks, well, the same as when you run out of petrol! And in 30 years of driving I’ve always made sure that doesn’t happen. I’ve had days when I’ve been driving round on fumes looking for a petrol station, at least with electric the app shows if the charge point is occupied or not
Biggest plus for us is in 20k of motoring I’ve saved around £2500 compared to what it would have cost in petrol. If I did more home charging I reckon I could get that to £3k a year. That alone makes it worthwhile for me, plus no gears, no clutch, so darn easy to drive