Electric car anyone?
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11:10am
11:10am, 4 Oct 2024
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jda
(ok I exaggerate, but certainly significantly more expensive in my case comparing our mid-sized EV car to our previous diesel van)
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11:11am
11:11am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
jda wrote: "but still half the cost of petrol diesel on average" Nope, it's more like double. Think we're talking at cross purposes jda - run costs. Electricity cost per mile vs. petrol/diesel cost per mile. I'm giving "half" as a rule of thumb. Highest electricity cost is about same as petrol diesel (on motorway very fast chargers). Cheapest end is free (solar at home), then cheap rate at night £0.02 per mile etc.  G
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11:12am
11:12am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
So you are talking purchase price jda? If so, then yes, I agree, 30% to 100% higher purchase cost.
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11:14am
11:14am, 4 Oct 2024
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jda
No, I'm talking cost of commercial charging. It's basically 80p everywhere south of the border. At least that's my experience.
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11:21am
11:21am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
Even at 80p per kWh, that is roughly 20p per mile. Even at 40mpg, petrol/diesel at £1.50 that's 19p per mile, so about the same, like I said? Which I accepted. I *never* have to use that and I would hope most people, with most usage (other than work drivers whose mileage is paid by the company) would have to charge in that way. Same way that I wouldn't normally have filled my car up at motorway service stations (10% more expensive for fuel than supermarkets?) But even more so, obviously with electric charging! G
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11:22am
11:22am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
... would NOT have to... Sorry, typo! G
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11:24am
11:24am, 4 Oct 2024
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jda
"about the same, like I said" This was a direct quote: "but still half the cost of petrol diesel on average" |
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11:28am
11:28am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
Yes, *if* you have to drive exclusively on motorway, then the same. On average (i.e. assuming that average means NOT exclusively driving on motorway), then half. And low, e.g. if you can charge solely at home or even zero! So "average" was the middle one?! Not sure where our difference in understanding is coming in. Or are we going to start using definitions of "average" - median, versus mean, versus mode?! G
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11:35am
11:35am, 4 Oct 2024
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jda
The context was commercial charging for people who can't easily charge at home. I don't believe that people relying on commercial charging will average 40p per unit in England. I have just had another look at zap map and there are some out of the way slow (7kW) chargers going at 62p around me, but they will be awkward to use for many (and additionally incur parking fees for some of them).
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11:37am
11:37am, 4 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
Are we just very lucky up here then? Most of the Chargeplace Scotland 50kW chargers are between 20p and 40p per kWh. Yes, also penalties for extended stay at charger. And there are 22kW or slower chargers that are cheaper too? G
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