Reply To: The Electric Car Scam?

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Mark Wales

    @jo

    “How do you get a full charge for £15 on public charge at 59p KWH ?”

    By using inverted commas! “ So about £15 for ‘a full tank’ ”

    ie, very few times have I parked and charged from <10 miles to the full 200.

    So, from a recent receipt, paid £14.58 at Tesla supercharger in Uxbridge for 27 KWH at 54p/KWH which I think is about 120/130 miles top up. Given that I’d charged up at home for ~£10, that’s £25 to do over 300 miles. Previous focus did about 200 miles on £40 of petrol, although that was back when fuel was sky high

    I’d imagine most EV owners use charging like we do – leave the house on full charge in the morning, top up once every few weeks on the road on longer trips? My calculation was @7p/KWH on the cheap home tariff it would cost £600 to do 20k miles a year so I don’t mind the occasional boosted cost of a public charge – still cheaper than petrol