Carer charging electric bike? How much adding to bill?

Yep, and also in all weathers on her bike too. I bet there will be some people that would complain she turns up sopping wet at times.

I honestly don’t think people really understand the crisis in care at the moment. The carer probably has 2-3 other people she is seeing 3 times per day as well so could be doing about 30 or even 50 miles a day.

So instead of just Googling it

You came on here to almost have a go about it?

😂

To be fair if the OP has no idea and thought it could be £5 a time it would be a very valid question

A lot of people don't know, a lot of people also don't know that there is often no correlation between the loading in kWh and the cost.

A fan oven of 3kWh load on for an hour does not use 3kWh or 3 units of power, for example.

Yes, I think it was supposed to be another CF thread.

A quick Google would have given you all the info you needed. But really do you have no idea how electricity is charged?Surely anyone with a bit of common sense knows that charging a small battery for a short time isnt going to cost hundreds of pounds a month. It seems to me that you just wanted to get everyone frothing about the carer and then your rage bait thread didnt work out the way you expected.

Electrician here, estimates are about right, between 5 to 20 pence per hour dependant on tariff and charging state of battery (more power is drawn at the start of charging a flat battery and reduces as the battery moves towards equalisation (full charge) - its not linear, so if she is "float charging" topping up, it will be a lot lower than charging from flat.

And on a note of pedantry, you can't steal electricity, the legal term is abstraction 😀

As others said, is she a good carer, that's the main thing!

This.
With knobs!

The care company a family member works for gives 50p an hour for fuel. That goes nowhere near the cost of fuel, wear and tear, additional insurance for using their car for work. In contrast, it's usually about 45p per mile when people are in full time employment and travel for their job.

They aren't allowed to charge their phones in a client's home, but their phone is necessary for their schedule, filling in client notes, contacting head office and god forbid, phoning ambulances.

Wow. Just wow.

@JumpingPumpkin because the OP could have found the answer in a quick Google. It seems like the post was just an excuse to have a go at the poor care worker

I don't know why everyone is so unpleasant to the OP, she said that a couple of quid would be fine, so all the sneering responses were unnecessary once the actual likely cost was confirmed.

Perhaps that the carer is a CF!

Maybe OP should just engage brain and think logically that a bike charging up is not going to be £40 and however many kWh that would be, it's much more than an electric shower or oven would be

Whilst the cost is small I would have expected to be asked permission in the first instance. To not do so is cheeky

OP - why didn't you just Google it? 🙄
Such an easy thing to find out & would have taken way less time than typing your original post did.

Or were you hoping for a good rant on here about the "selfish carer"?

@Boododedoop Yes part of the cost of providing care to individuals in their own homes is the fuel it takes to get there. It is a cost to the carer and is past on to their clients either directly as a travel expense or it is built into the price paid per hour for the care. Of course it is! Carers are not charities they are working to earn a living. And piss off with the woe is me poor clients crap. People make choices to stay living in a remote location which directly increases the cost of transport for the carers. So yes you will pay more for rural care and rightly so. I charge an extra £5 per session for out of area care calls. If people don’t like it - fine find someone else.

But you know how to Google, no?

About 5p for an hour's charge shows you are being incredibly petty. It is so hard to get carers to go to rural locations your Auntie is lucky to have found her.

It does NOT cost a few pounds per day. Don't be ridiculous. It's a few PENCE.

I assume she (your aunt) doesn't always have the same carer three times a day. My mother has carers and it will be two or three different ones each day on the rota. All driving, so I am assuming most of your aunt's carers drive. Only one who comes on the electric bike. So the amount it costs when charging is absolutely minuscule and will barely be noticeable.

Presumably she charges the bike where she can in order that she can get to all of her jobs and then get back to the office/home without getting stranded (ebikes are often very heavy to pedal if the motor stops, but very efficient and fast with it). I'm sure you wouldn't want her to risk getting stranded for the sake of such a minuscule amount. That would very mean.

I can't believe the same carer comes 3 x a day, 7 days a week so am guessing her other carers drive? Therefore this is costing peanuts and rural carers are like golddust.

The fire risk is minimal given it's being charged outside during the day whilst people are around.

The real fire risks around charging things come when they're charged unattended at night, and in stupid places - like my Dads neighbours who left a cheap chinese powertool battery charger running.. in an uninhabited room crammed with tins of paint and paper, in a wood framed house, stuffed with plastic wrap they were storing for some reason, more paint, cans of oil and fuel and more paper and loads of timber - all materials/fuel for rebuilding their semi-derelict barn. They lost the whole house, by the time they woke up, they were lucky to get themselves out uinjured!

In guess the OP was worried that her inheritance might be diminished by a few quid. If she feels that strongly about it she can always care for her aunt herself on minimum wage.