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.
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.