At 2.5 year and 32,000 miles my EV has been cheap as chips to run, even at the 9p per kw Octopus Go rate.
I’ve done trips all over the UK from Northern Scotland to the Channel ports and charging has never been an issue. The odd charger is broken (I only charge at locations with banks of 4+ chargers when going down South), but I’ve never been stranded. Of course it could be better, just as of course it would be better if motorway service stops charged the same price for fuel as Asda & they all got replaced with clean modern buildings and toilets…
Charging is pretty quick and painless except for the cost, which I just don’t care about as I only have to pay that price when travelling long distances, it’s more than made up for by the bulk of charging at home which is 200 miles for £5.50. And so what if it’s 69p/Kw at Gridserve? on a 600 mile journey it only needs done for about 120kw, so that’s £5.760 + £83 = £88.76. Petrol at £1.50 a litre would give 59 litres, so basically the same price as someone doing 46mpg over that same 600 miles.
NB: I don’t pay full price charging everywhere, the Octopus Electroverse card give a 5% discount for Octopus Go customers and 10% off for Octopus Intelligent, not bothered to include that saving in the above calcs.
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