My honest view Mark @MFillingham is if you can’t charge at home, it become more of a faf especially as we get older to rely soley on public chargers. This is especially true if your feeling down for a week, but not yet got round to charging, only to worry how your going to get the doctors or hospital appoinment. Of course this is not an issue if you can charge at home. Equally @mitch has said previously, he gets 60mpg from his Juke Hybrid, which works out at 9.6p per mile, I can’t see any public chargers being that cheap. Tesco for example charges 40p kWh for it’s 22kW chargers. At an average of 3.5 miles kWh , thats costing just under 11.5p a mile, with the hastle of charging away from home. It would be a totally different outcome if the council allowed permission for a driveway and mitch could apply for a DFG or Forces grant, then your looking at as little, as 2p amile.
It’s so funny you should say that. The government announced a £63 million boost including an extension of the Kerbo charge type cable tunnel trials that have been run by certain local authorities. This should help with those who have been denied chargers due to a lack of drive but have parking outside of their property with a single public access between car and property boundary.
Given Mitch’s own estimates of use and likely need to charge on only a monthly basis, it would be easy to keep the car at a point where emergency trips to hospital/doctors wouldn’t be an issue. I can do that very easily at home but even charging publicly wouldn’t be a hassle as I’d charge every 2 weeks to around 85% and allow that to run down. My estimation would mean that at recharging it’ll still be over 40% charged.
Yes, costs will be fractionally higher but expectations are for petrol prices to not come down, in fact it’s a minor miracle that the whole Isreal/Iran thing didn’t see a jump in pricing. However, there’s now an established pattern in charging coming down in price. All it takes is for 40p to become 35 and for the estimate of 3.5 to become 4 and the maths looks entirely different. Remember, the Ioniq 6 is one of the most efficient designs around and averaging 4 miles per kWh over a period of a lease shouldn’t be particularly challenging. It wasn’t that long ago that someone posted to one of the Ioniq groups that they had achieved 6miles per kWh, something I remember because everyone thought it was a 5 and reacted accordingly. Even at 40p 6 miles per kWh would be less than 7p per mile.
What I’m less sure of is whether I’d want something the length of the 6 for around town driving. The driving would be fine but street parking or getting into some car parks around here in that would be a head ache I’d rather do without.
Oh and @Mitch there is a new facelift version due out soon. It also comes with the Ioniq 6’s equivalent of the 5’s N model. The Ioniq 6 N is a 650 bhp ‘Porsche’s worst nightmare’ beast.
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Mark