Electric Vehicles

[Luckypants]

Try this as a map of chargers in the area. Electroverse have almost every charger in Europe on their database.

https://electroverse.com/map

[Sir Trev]

That's a useful map. Seems the charger in the CO-OP is no longer there... But there are now five in the social club car park. Fuuse Type 2, with different KWh rates.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

That's a useful map. Seems the charger in the CO-OP is no longer there... But there are now five in the social club car park. Fuuse Type 2, with different KWh rates.

Yep, charging is everywhere these days. I never have to plan charging these days, just how much I'm willing to pay. So my planning revolves around finding cheapest charging - just like I did with diesel.

[Luckypants]

I thought I'd share a post I made on another forum with regards to costs...

Just chiming in on costs as we've just come back from holiday to Northumberland. We covered 1305 miles with average consumption of 3.27 m/kWh (lowered by the return trip in the wind and rain yesterday 3.2 average for 240 miles). The total cost of electricity used including topping back up at home on return was £159.21, giving an overall cost per mile of 12.2p. That's pretty comparable to my Citigo petrol which is giving 11.9p/mile at current prices. My previous diesel Karoq would be about 13.6p/mile at current prices, so the ID.4 is still more economical using public chargers.

I used AC chargers while visiting attractions with prices down around 53p/kWh. We did a few rapid charges, Tebay services both going and coming home, two Tesla charges as they were the same price as A/C charging and an Ionity charge to test Plug and Charge. The Ionity charge was by far the most expensive.

I hope this is useful to anyone thinking of an EV.

P.S. My average cost per mile over 58.5K miles is 5.23p. This is heading DOWN now I'm on an EV tariff for overnight charging.

[admin]

Very useful Mike

[Bibio]

Thats good info Mike. Long way to go before I'll think about a leccy car and the inconvenience of charging.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Bibio

Thats good info Mike. Long way to go before I'll think about a leccy car and the inconvenience of charging.

I don't find charging inconvenient at all. I'm able to charge at home, so that is without doubt the game changer. Nearly all my charging is done at home, overnight while we sleep so the car is always available when we want it.

Any charging done away from home is generally done while we are doing something else. On our recent holiday, this is how it went

• The DC charges at Tebay were done while having a meal and walking the dog. Both directions. In fact on the way north, I plugged into the slower 50kW charger to give us enough time to walk the dog and eat.
• AC charged at Cragside NT property while exploring the house and gardens. We made two visits, one all day and one for the afternoon.
• AC charged at Seaham beach while wifey went sea-glass hunting
• DC charge at Adderstone Tesla as we needed a wee.
• AC charged at Beamish museum while we went round (this was a bonus as I didn't realise there are chargers there.)
• DC charge Ionity Alnwick to test my new Plug & charge feature
• DC charge at Adderstone Tesla to ensure a good charge for the trip home. This was a bit inconvenient as it was the only reason we stopped there. (and also Tesla chargers are cheap)