Thank you for showing the full process including actually stopping the charge, unplugging and putting back in the holster! Please continue to do this on every video on the subject as there are always going to be newbies watching for whom each step is an unknown.
Anyone using public charging with any frequency should not just be using tap to pay. Any rudimentary web search will find you subscriptions schemes bringing rapid charging down to the same as or less than the current standard variable domestic rates for electricity. Elli has Osprey and lots of others others at 35 pence KWH currently. Ionity at 28 pence KWH. These are largely overlooked by outlets reporting on EV running costs and are really not representative of informed EV motoring.
Does the charger have any information displayed in advance of charging on the cost/KWh? Couldn't see anything throughout the clip. Could come as an unpleasant shock. Perhaps that's why they are so available!
Nice, Nikki. Too bad Osprey isn't on this side of the pond. The screens are impressive. Some of the screens on DCFC over here have baked in the sun so badly that they are illegible. Gotta do better, DCFC providers!
I am suprised, how expensive electric charging has gotten, when you pay the same for a full battery than for a full tank of diesel I don’t know why I should switch from a cost point because I can get way further with a tank of diesel than a battery
Unfortunately I have to rely on the public charging network as I can’t have a home charger. The increase in prices everywhere have made running my i3s nearly as expensive as an ICE vehicle, plus I feel oike I’m constantly sitting around at charging stations on charge, or waiting to get onto a charger as most are either full or not working where I live. Very frustrating.
If you can charge at home do so because public chargers are a rip off. The cheapest are gridserve but the most expensive are osprey and instavolt, which both charge 79p per kwh.
Many people can not charge at home. Some houses don't even have off street parking! Highrise flats etc have no chance. But remember you buy an EV for the environment, not your wallet.
@@waynehobbs5175 I agree that too many people cannot charge at home, and until governments actually apply building regs that exist to have charge points added to all new builds then it will still be a shit show.
Just got a £180 bill to charge my car from genie point, charged for 50 mins on tuesday. The bill said i was charging from tuesdat till thursday morning. Cheeky bastards
The prediction that electricity will be dearer than ULP is coming true. Lucky EV buyers buy for the environment and not to save money. Did a quick comparison 79p UK = $1.35 Australian dollars. EVS use 2kWh to travel same distance as 1 litre of ULP (generally). So to travel say 100km (62 miles for the 4 countries out of 193 that still use imperial measures) might use 16kWh vs 8 litres of ULP. Australian verdict: Electricity $21.60 for 100km, ULP $15.20.
95% of the I use home charging at 5p/kWh Tesla is about 30p/kWh. So it is still much much cheaper to run an EV if you have access to home charging. The fast chargers are very expensive for 2 reasons. (maybe 3) They need an ROI (return on investment) in putting them in. They don't have a captive market as 95% of the time you are in charge of charging at a predefined nice cheap rate. They don't give a shit.
@@speedyfubar Yes absolutely but my point was that you have to do something. Charge at home is always the cheapest (assuming that there's no free option anywhere anymore).
Thank you for showing the full process including actually stopping the charge, unplugging and putting back in the holster! Please continue to do this on every video on the subject as there are always going to be newbies watching for whom each step is an unknown.
Anyone using public charging with any frequency should not just be using tap to pay. Any rudimentary web search will find you subscriptions schemes bringing rapid charging down to the same as or less than the current standard variable domestic rates for electricity. Elli has Osprey and lots of others others at 35 pence KWH currently. Ionity at 28 pence KWH. These are largely overlooked by outlets reporting on EV running costs and are really not representative of informed EV motoring.
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This is where a PHEV driver will use the 175kWh charger, plug in to add 5 miles but will have gone shopping for two hours. :)
This is one charging hub I would never 👎🏻 using unless I was very,very desperate. And definitely not a full 80%.
I don't understand why we need this video. Plug it in, swipe your card, go and have a cup of coffee, this is my secret process. It works every time.
Then you are lucky, in the UK we have being suffering apps/RFI cards and finally they are moving over to ..... money..... at last.
I used osprey in a retail just recently I had to signup to the app as it didn’t take my debit card.
Only UK debit cards? 🤔
All the networks need to make sure their screens are visible in bright sunlight. Many/Most of them are not.
Does the charger have any information displayed in advance of charging on the cost/KWh? Couldn't see anything throughout the clip. Could come as an unpleasant shock. Perhaps that's why they are so available!
Nice
Last Jan they changed me 46p/kwh. Then it else to £1, then it was 76p then it was 69p. Who knows what it will be tomorrow?
Sorry but the editor changed my words to nonsense 🤔
You didn't mention the Bonnett app which gets you 10% + discount.
Nice, Nikki. Too bad Osprey isn't on this side of the pond. The screens are impressive. Some of the screens on DCFC over here have baked in the sun so badly that they are illegible. Gotta do better, DCFC providers!
I am suprised, how expensive electric charging has gotten, when you pay the same for a full battery than for a full tank of diesel I don’t know why I should switch from a cost point because I can get way further with a tank of diesel than a battery
the full tank of fuel with give you hundreds of miles - electric. your getting 150-250 miles if that
Unfortunately I have to rely on the public charging network as I can’t have a home charger. The increase in prices everywhere have made running my i3s nearly as expensive as an ICE vehicle, plus I feel oike I’m constantly sitting around at charging stations on charge, or waiting to get onto a charger as most are either full or not working where I live. Very frustrating.
If you can charge at home do so because public chargers are a rip off. The cheapest are gridserve but the most expensive are osprey and instavolt, which both charge 79p per kwh.
Many people can not charge at home. Some houses don't even have off street parking! Highrise flats etc have no chance. But remember you buy an EV for the environment, not your wallet.
@@waynehobbs5175 I agree that too many people cannot charge at home, and until governments actually apply building regs that exist to have charge points added to all new builds then it will still be a shit show.
@@waynehobbs5175 what a simp
Cannot believe Electric charging will cost £40 I thought evs are supposed to be cheaper and more cost effective
Its easy 😆
Just got a £180 bill to charge my car from genie point, charged for 50 mins on tuesday. The bill said i was charging from tuesdat till thursday morning. Cheeky bastards
Filling up an SUV with diesel would prob cost you £100!
The prediction that electricity will be dearer than ULP is coming true. Lucky EV buyers buy for the environment and not to save money.
Did a quick comparison 79p UK = $1.35 Australian dollars. EVS use 2kWh to travel same distance as 1 litre of ULP (generally). So to travel say 100km (62 miles for the 4 countries out of 193 that still use imperial measures) might use 16kWh vs 8 litres of ULP.
Australian verdict: Electricity $21.60 for 100km,
ULP $15.20.
95% of the I use home charging at 5p/kWh
Tesla is about 30p/kWh.
So it is still much much cheaper to run an EV if you have access to home charging.
The fast chargers are very expensive for 2 reasons. (maybe 3)
They need an ROI (return on investment) in putting them in.
They don't have a captive market as 95% of the time you are in charge of charging at a predefined nice cheap rate.
They don't give a shit.
Osprey is hopeless compared to Gridserve.
Way to expensive. Just charge at home and save these for emergency or road trips. No home charging just? Buy a cheap diesel.
Osprey is to expensive, anything over 62p kWh is the same as running a diesel. CHARGE AT HOME.
How do you charge at home when away from home?
@@djtaylorutube splash n dash or granny charger, better still, go to a cheaper charging service 👍🏻
@@speedyfubar Yes absolutely but my point was that you have to do something. Charge at home is always the cheapest (assuming that there's no free option anywhere anymore).