Yep. Its what I will use once in a while to put some electricity in the milk float at home.
Public chargers area definite no for me, except in a real emergency. It would probably be cheaper to use the Omega than charge up with one of those.
My Son has a corsa E and uses the tesla chargers through an app, much cheaper than many of the other chargers
Also, the Leafs all have a Chademo connector, which is the Betamax of the ev charging world, and a converter to CCS, which is now the standard is somewhere around £300 
. So no Tesla charging on that one. The Corsa E is a decent little runabout with decent range for that size of car 
The supercharger network really is Tesla's secret sauce, so much better and easier than anything a competitor organisation has come up with.
Having tolerated* a Corsa-E as a hire car once to go from Brum to London and back, it's a useless crock of shit in every way, not helped by the fact that MOTORWAY SERVICES Charging facilities are crap.
Our journey consisted of:
5am start, so we can start work onsite at 9
Getting bum squeaking close to Oxford services, by time he'd picked me up in Brakkers, which had 3 working chargers (and still does to this day, if you ignore the dozen or so Tesla ones around the corner). All in use, with driver's oppsed off for breakfast for over an hour. So long wait for one to become free. Then pissing around with downloading and registering an app, and about an hour to charge. Leave Oxford at around 9:15.
Still got a fair amount of juice, but no further services between Beaconsfield and the City of London, so top up to 100% at Beaconsfield, which took probably around another hour, I think it was gone 11 at this point.
Rock up onsite at around 12:30, 3.5hrs late.
Around 3hrs onsite, then similar return journey home, stopping at Beaconsfield for a splash and dash and Oxford (shorter wait for charger to become free) before dropping me off at Brakkers aorund 8:30pm, and my chaffeur back to Brum, where he had to return to Enterprise full, getting in around 10:45pm
In a proper car, that journey would be about 3-3.5hrs each way, plus 3hrs onsite, so 5am - 2/3pm (9-10hrs, 6-7hrs travel), but in a shitbox EV like the Corsa E, it was 5am - 10:45pm (17hr45m, 14hr45m travel).
So, we both learnt that:
The Corsa E is totally unsuited for anything really, maybe grandma going to the shops
EVs are totally unsuitable for our current needs
EVs are totally pointless unless home semi-fast charging is available, and you don't travel distances.
Armed with that knowledge, we've both discovered that everyone who buys an EV then goes to great lengths to evangelise over them... ...right up until the point they get sick of them and go back to a proper car.
Also of note, just about every home in my street had an EV about 4 years ago. None do now. That speaks for itself.
*tolerated is a lie. It could never be tolerated. FFS, public transport would have been quicker.... ....maybe thats the grand plan
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