Alot of cities around the world are making lamposts with outlets you can plug in to. This would essentially mean every parking bay can become a 'charging station ’ and we don’t need to waste as much land on the equivalent of gas stations like we do today.
Problem with these chargers is that at least here in the UK it works out more expensive per mile than petrol. This is pretty much the only thing putting me off as I have no ability to use a home charger at my home.
Is it really ? Did you try doing the calculation ?
I got an electric car and everyone who don’t own an EV is telling me the same thing. But when I do the calculation even in expensive charger it’s still cheaper per km compared to an ICE.
However public charger will always be more expensive than a charger at home.
Edit; I’m not in the UK do I don’t know the situation there.
German here, AC charging at home with solar panels and a dynamic tariff is around 15 cent per kWh, public charging is about 60cents. My car needs twenty of those per 100km, so that’s 12€ and that’s 6 liters of gas. My old A2 could live with 5.4l/100km.
Alot of cities around the world are making lamposts with outlets you can plug in to. This would essentially mean every parking bay can become a 'charging station ’ and we don’t need to waste as much land on the equivalent of gas stations like we do today.
It also satisfies the apartment issue.
Problem with these chargers is that at least here in the UK it works out more expensive per mile than petrol. This is pretty much the only thing putting me off as I have no ability to use a home charger at my home.
Is it really ? Did you try doing the calculation ?
I got an electric car and everyone who don’t own an EV is telling me the same thing. But when I do the calculation even in expensive charger it’s still cheaper per km compared to an ICE.
However public charger will always be more expensive than a charger at home.
Edit; I’m not in the UK do I don’t know the situation there.
German here, AC charging at home with solar panels and a dynamic tariff is around 15 cent per kWh, public charging is about 60cents. My car needs twenty of those per 100km, so that’s 12€ and that’s 6 liters of gas. My old A2 could live with 5.4l/100km.
Wife did the maths yes. We were looking to get one through a work scheme.
If we could home charge it would win hands down. Without that sadly not.
It’s a shame.
Is that due to the providers adding too much of a margin?
That would be my assumption without deep diving it
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Nope, but I also don’t park my car in my apartment so win win.
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