[Jojoe]

Just seen Dave Tajes It On latest video, he’s at a new charging location in Manchester where the price is 55p peak and just 25p off peak. That’s the sort of price you could get an EV even if you can’t charge at home.

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[trb10]

We just need those prices to spread rapidly across the UK!

[kezo]

Things are improving all the time, with dedicated EV petrol charging stations, with watering holes popping up here and there. As we know one success story leads to another, which will start to bring lower costs, although not sure if I’d want to go back out once settled in my PJ’s for the evening!

The company has several outlests mainly across Manchester and further a field.

https://be-ev.co.uk/locations/

[vinnym70]

Is there really any incentive for public EV charging facilities to offer reasonable pricing? Whenever I’ve looked, it seems like most of the sites with faster charging seem happy to charge for the privilege and that means a full battery and a full tank of diesel/petrol aren’t wildly different in price.

Gridserve now charging 79p/kWh. I really want to switch to EV but, short of being able to charge at home at cheap overnight rates, you’re going to pay over the odds. I fully understand everyone needs to make a profit but without sites like the above I’m still not convinced.

I know there’s  lot of products in the world that are priced based on the value the customer puts on them vs the cost of production but EV charge pricing feels, in general, like it’s going the *wrong way*

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[Menorca Mike]

That’s great news

[MFillingham]

I think the problem is that companies like Gridserve invested vast amounts into getting a good infrastructure built and need a return on that.   Thus 80p rates.  I don’t think anyone’s thinking about some form of price war just yet but when competition is price based rather than the convenience of the locations then pricing will drop like the proverbial hot spud.

I know there’s talk about VAT but the more realistic and complete solution will be dealing with the country’s electricity market in its entirety.  While we’re all paying the most expensive rates and corporate rates are worse, public charging won’t be cheap.

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[kdwolf]

I think most of open Tesla charging points charge between 42p and 55p anyway for a high speed (over 150kW) charging. Those in the video (I admit I didn’t watch it all) are only going up to 50kW in my mind.

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[gilders]

At 25p I’d guess even charging a PHEV, so long as it’s in a convenient location and you needed a break from driving, would be worthwhile.

[Jojoe]

The CCS are 300kwh. You can check on the link Kezo posted, M40 3AX.

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[kezo]

gilders wrote:

At 25p I’d guess even charging a PHEV, so long as it’s in a convenient location and you needed a break from driving, would be worthwhile.

You’d have shares in the coffee shop with the time it took 😂

 

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