Wasn’t the cost supposed to go down?
Price of public EV charging soars as filling up petrol cars becomes cheaper
Electric vehicle owners who use public chargers saw the cost of running their cars soar by hundreds of pounds last year, even as petrol prices fell.
Zapmap, which monitors installations of charge points, found that the price of charging cars away from home climbed by 11pc in the last year.
Motorists who exclusively use public charging points now pay more per mile than those with petrol cars, the company said.
Zapmap said electric vehicle drivers who charged at home 80pc of the time paid 7p a mile, or around £680 a year, to run their cars.
Those who charged at home half of the time paid 11p a mile, or £1,140 a year.
However, motorists who only charge at public stations are now paying 18p a mile or £1,810 a year.
That is more than the average petrol car driver who pays 15p a mile, or £1,470 a year.
Why? The main culprit seems to be due to drivers opting mostly for fast chargers, because they do not want to sit around for hours waiting for their vehicle to be charged so they can go to work or the store or pick up the kids. Most people do not have access to a slow charger or fast charger at home, so, they have to do it away from home. Just wait till it skyrockets because reliable, dependable, affordable energy sources are replaced.
