Public EV chargers- is there a knack?

Jonjo0789 said:
I pay £280 month for Hyundai Kona 64 kw including maintenance/servicing 3 year deal 8k miles per year 18 months into the deal no problems to date . I have friends who hate ev,s with a passion who never tire of telling me how daft I was to bin off my diesel car . Like Jon snow they nothing
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What would it be for 12000 miles.
Were there any upfront payments, sounds a great deal to me having looked at others.
 


3 months up front payment ,12k not available when I took it out (I don't need that anyway) car was supplied from SG Petch but was a online deal
 
Frijj said:
At £1 a unit, my car would cost around 38p per mile, that’s the same as a 50mpg car would cost per mile, if petrol was £4 a litre.

If electric costs stay as they are, EVs are dead unless you have a home charger.
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We're still in the very early stages of the evolution of EV's. Battery tech will improve range and charging times a lot over the coming years and the big advancement will come in the use of solar glass/body where the car is charged by itself as it sits in daylight. Still some way off but the tech is being developed now and I assume why a lot of cars are now being designed with glass roofs so the new tech can be trialled/ implemented as it comes on stream.


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joemcdokes said:
You are the person EV’s were aimed at.
How much do you pay a month for the car, it seems people are reluctant to say?
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I pay about 500 for my I pace but it's salary sacrifice so I'm lucky tbh, no upfront payment.
I was paying about 440 for a diesel tiguan which to buy was about 40k as opposed to nearly 80k for this, then 200 a month for fuel (when it was about 1.40 a litre) plus 50 a month insurance which is included on this deal along with servicing and tyres so it was a no brainer for me really.
 
Jonjo0789 said:
I pay £280 month for Hyundai Kona 64 kw including maintenance/servicing 3 year deal 8k miles per year 18 months into the deal no problems to date . I have friends who hate ev,s with a passion who never tire of telling me how daft I was to bin off my diesel car . Like Jon snow they nothing
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Where’s that from mate my deals about to end with my employer Nissan they have withdrew the leafe from the scheme and paying similar
 
As long as you have a home charger I think EV are still the way to go

South Tyneside public charging points are still free to use and there is one that seems to be hardly used that i frequent

I travelled down to Herefordshire in the summer and used Instavolt once on way there and once on way back, charge from 20% -100% was £28
 
legend7 said:
I pay about 500 for my I pace but it's salary sacrifice so I'm lucky tbh, no upfront payment.
I was paying about 440 for a diesel tiguan which to buy was about 40k as opposed to nearly 80k for this, then 200 a month for fuel (when it was about 1.40 a litre) plus 50 a month insurance which is included on this deal along with servicing and tyres so it was a no brainer for me really.
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Even compensating with less MPG on average and bumping up the monthly out goings, I struggled to find any deal like for like that would see me better off.

That was before any charging costs.
As much as yours was a no brainer it would be idiotic for the majority of people especially if they don’t do many miles to swap to electric.

I don’t think there’s enough people that care about the environment to spend more money.
 
joemcdokes said:
Even compensating with less MPG on average and bumping up the monthly out goings, I struggled to find any deal like for like that would see me better off.

That was before any charging costs.
As much as yours was a no brainer it would be idiotic for the majority of people especially if they don’t do many miles to swap to electric.

I don’t think there’s enough people that care about the environment to spend more money.
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Ah yeah it's not for everyone it just worked out cheaper for me and I ended up with a great car.
If it goes the other way I'll happily jump back into a 3 litre petrol guzzler.
I just can't see it at the minute, batteries are getting better every year and the cars are getting better.
 
Whitburnmakem said:
Where’s that from mate my deals about to end with my employer Nissan they have withdrew the leafe from the scheme and paying similar
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It was a autotrader branded company pretty sure it was vantrader on the paperwork I,m on holiday at moment so can't be 100% unlikely to be same price now I guess supply and demand
 
legend7 said:
Ah yeah it's not for everyone it just worked out cheaper for me and I ended up with a great car.
If it goes the other way I'll happily jump back into a 3 litre petrol guzzler.
I just can't see it at the minute, batteries are getting better every year and the cars are getting better.
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They’re getting more expensive though, that’s the downside.
 
legend7 said:
They're getting cheaper really.
The more they make and sell and less initial development will bring the prices down more.
Hopefully
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It’s not about price of them to be fair though they’re just looking at what people are willing to pay per month.

They even mention subscriptions now.
 
HellsBells said:
Well let’s not forget this is the on road charging price.

If you can charge your car at home at 34p (new price cap) per kWh that’s £13.60 not £40 and it will be less if you charge over night on a cheaper tariff.
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What happens when when the overnight cheaper tariff is no more when the whole country is charging cars overnight? Just a thought.
 
Does anyone here have a Cupra Born?

I’m thinking about placing an order for one as a second car for covering most of our local miles, schools, shopping etc with.
 

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