Anyone heard that at these motorway service stations with charging points for your EV, the £ of leccy equates to the same as petrol/diesel?! So the pence per mile is identical to ICE car. Yyyup, astonishingly enough theyre using it as a cash cow, whodathunkit?
Hm, where's Jimmy when you need him? He makes fairly regular use of these things IIRC..
Not been on the ball with this thread, but on the cost point, all the charge points I use cost around 30p/kWh for rapids (30Kw plus) the most costly are 39p. There is one company - ionity that is charging 60p+ but only for it's 350kw chargers iirc, and only if you aren't a member (which involves downloading a free app). So not really relevant unless you are a Porsche Taycan owner with no phone. Tesla charges 24p.
Given that my milkfloat's long term average is 4.2 miles per kWh, at 30p/Kw, its about 7.5p/mile Or the diesel equivalent of 75mpg.
Yes, the rapid chargers are a rip off compared to charging at home, but I view them similarly to fuelling up on the motorway - not done unless absolutely necessary.
The simple fact is that installing an new infrastructure is expensive so the companies need every installation to turn a good profit. As Shackeng mentioned 100bn by 2050... Personally I'd see that as a better investment than half of HS2.