@glos guy Wow, if you are only getting 479 miles and spending £17 on charging, you are doing something wrong, or your sums are incorrect. If you vehicle has a battery and an electric motor, like my one does…i get 900 miles out of £17 of charge. A few guys on here have only used one tank of petrol in 6 months of ownership. Granted. Ot everyone can run their phev purely on charging, but some can. Your figures for 479 miles are horrible.
I seem to remember that @Glos Guy does not have a cheap overnight electricity tariff, so all his charging is done at standard rate prices, so between 22p and 26p per kWh.
But I agree with the overall flavour of what you are saying. I wouldn’t have an EV or PHEV without a cheap overnight tariff, it’s not efficient.
Our BMW i4 costs around £0.0185 per mile to run. This doesn’t include the odd hour or two of free electricity we get some weeks with Octopus. That’s efficient!
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