By Paul Homewood
This is video has been posted on X by an EV driver, filming the public charger as she fills up. You can only watch it on TikTok, but I have taken a screenshot of the interesting bit:
So she has spent £21.60, at 85p per KWh. But this has only added 81 miles worth, a cost of 26.6p per mile. As she says, this is blooming ridiculous, particularly she only has a small car. Even including fuel duty, this is probably twice the cost of a diesel. It has also taken 40 minutes to charge.
She also begins by noting that her computer said she had a range of 200 miles when she began her journey, but after driving 100 miles, the readout was down to just 63 miles. This proves that you will get much less mileage in real world driving than the theoretical range.
She also says her trip is 210 miles, so she may have to stop to charge up again rather risk pushing her battery to the limit.
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