Eletric car

[Sarawicks]

If I want 200 Mile's on my car how much will it cost at Asda, Tesco or any other charges,

£15.50

Far too many variables to establish but say you’re at 20% of a 54 kWh car and you need to go to 80% to give you 200 miles, that’s 32kWh to charge, at £0.80 per kWh is £25.60.

Your mileage may vary on cost, how much to charge etc. and you may not even get 200 miles depending on driving style.

That's more than a diesel or petrol car

Wheres to cheapest charging points to charge

How can that be?

Thats way more than my car and its a 15 year old petrol automatic!!!

At home with an overnight tariff. Costs us about £4

Download zap map, it has all the info.

What's your miles per kWh ie how efficient is the car?

How much should I be paying for home charger, can I pay installments for it

Charges are variable, look at ZapMap which gives an idea of the costs. A very few supermarkets still have free charging but the slow chargers.
TBH charging outside the house is expensive, at home it would cost me about £4.50 I think, on the overnight tariff. I’ve had an electric car for over two years and have only topped up away from home 3 times. Twice on a motor way services and once at a shopping centre.

You need to use Google to find the answer for where you live, no point in having to charge up and drive 200 miles to the cheapest place in the country

You need to charge mostly at home, costs £4.80 to fully charge my 64kw car from 0-100% and over 200 miles.

Charging stations are expensive, I haven’t used one for 2 years! I plug car in every couple of days or so and keep charged up. It really depends on your car use if electric is suitable for you.

We only charge at home. In the 4 years we've had it we've only charged elsewhere 3 times as it's so much more expensive!

I thought I read you can get them installed for about £700

Have you got an electric car OP and havent you already investigated this? Or are you buying one or trying to work out the usual pricing and logistics?

From googling, there are installers who will agree to an installment payment plan. You’ll end up paying more of course but it might be an investment worth making if you currently spend a lot on liquid fuel. I personally would look at a loan or overdraft if I had to as I don’t think the charger I would choose can be put in by instalments.

Electric cars are not a solution if you can’t charge at home. If you can get a home charger fitted you can benefit with 7p per unit electricity overnight so there are cost benefits beyond charging the car.

On overnight charging you’ll pay £4-£5 for a 150/200 mile charge. For petrol or diesel you are looking more like £20/£30.

If you need to charge on a public charger you’ll pay about 10x that. For us that’s only on big trips and we easily save a fortune over the year on fuel.

Always more expensive at public chargers, with motorways & fast chargers being most expensive. I charge overnight at home in cheap tariff - from empty to full it’s £4.90 & will do around 260 miles

My recent rough calculations:
old petrol car - petrol cost 15p a mile
charging my ev at home - 2p a mile
charging at expensive fast public charger that costs 86p/kwh - 21p a mile

you can buy a slow “granny” charger that plugs into a 3-pin plug at home, it’s slow but the chargers cost about £120 or so.

if you are in a flat or rented accommodation you can get a grant for fast charging.

Zapmap is my preferred app for finding public chargers, it gives the prices on it so you can hunt for a better value charger.

I was going to buy a eletric car , the car deposit and installing a charger is more expensive than I thought, I thought I can just buy the choosen car then after a month have a eletric hook up at my home , but I'm rent my house out in about a year, so just feel like wasting money, I'm surprised at the away from home chargers wirking out very expensive more than running a petrol or diesel

We charge at home and haven’t had a charging point installed (we will eventually, as part of other works). We already had an outdoor PowerPoint so just charge on that using a three point plug. It’s slow but that’s fine as we do it overnight.

We've had a electric car for several years now and I'm a big fan, but I currently wouldn't get one unless I had a drive and a home charger. It's both cheap and convenient if you can charge mainly or wholly at home but neither if you're reliant on public chargers. We only use public chargers on long journeys or if we're on holiday - as PP's have said the vast majority of our charging is done at home, overnight or at times our electricity provider designates as "green" so the tarrif is low.
But if you do use public chargers the cost varies wildly. As a general rule the lower powered (ie slower) the charger the cheaper, but there's a big variation even within that. I've seen 150kW chargers that cost between 63 and 85p per kWh this week. Another problem with using public chargers a lot is that most places are installing increasingly fast ones, which is great when you want a quick top up on a long journey but not good for regular usage. As well as the expense, it's not good for your battery to be charged very fast on a regular basis. Slower charging from a less powerful charger and keeping your battery between 20% and 80% charged as much as possible is best for its longevity.

Yes unfortunately the cost of using chargers in public places has skyrocketed over the last 4/5 years. I first got an EV in 2021 and the more expensive chargers on the go were 20-30p per kWh. Most people pay that at home for their electric now! There were also a lot of free ones around (Tesco for example, I used to get 15 miles free while I did my weekly shop!)

It’s only worth it now if you can almost exclusively charge at home. Most are 85p+ per kWh which works out far more than petrol or diesel. I have used a public charger only a handful of times since we got our new EV 18 months ago. Thankfully the only 2 long distance journeys I do are to visit people who also have EVs and let me charge at their house!

If you don’t have an at home charger it’s not worth it.

Charging costs vary from 50 to 80p per kwh

if you do 4 miles per kWh that would mean 200 miles would cost £25 to £40

summer you may get more miles per kwh
winter likely less

a home charger at 7p per kWh would cost £3.50

and you get to use the low rate for any household appliances run overnight like washing machine

Do we need the “uber” for home charging -everyone shares their home charger locations on some system - even at a day time rate it’s much cheaper than the commercial units

Some people do this on zap map. But I’ve never had any success using them (only tried a couple of times) - either got no response when texting or told they couldn’t do it for whatever reason.

Would have saved everyone's time and effort if you'd thought about doing your own research first.