Having an EV without a Home Charger
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Millions of UK car owners are unable to have a home charger installed at the present time, in this one we take a look at the options for EV owners without home charging facilities and you get my answer to the question of "would I own an EV without a home charger".
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My youngest son lived in a flat and bought a Tesla. There was a rapid charger just round the corner he used often. He also charge at my house and a friends plus supermarket fast chargers near his office. Note I have three sons, they all have EV's.
Obviously neither as cheap or lazy as me 😂
Local councils should provide free parking overnight in car parks and install 7/11kwh chargers. Home charging at 7.5p is so compelling that I can't see how an EV would makes sense if you don't have cheap charging option
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Good thoughts Jim. One thing I notice in the UK is that in the car world there's always plenty of people doing down what others have bought or done and saying what they bought and did was obviously better. Its annoying and demoralising.
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Do you think it’s envy? I’ve never looked at someone driving past me with an expensive sports car and been envious, I’ve often admired the car or thought ‘mid life crisis’ and I’ll admit seeing a convertible Bentley hit a parked car last summer did make me chuckle. You are right though.
I love my EV and have had EV's for 10 years.
I would find it hard to recommend an EV if you haven't got a dedicated parking space to charge your EV.
Great video by the way - very informative 👍
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Just a simple honest reply I appreciate. I'd love a Tesla but can't home charge and even thought of leasing and just supercharging, but I feel it's a big drawback if you can't home charge due to the costs anyway. Cheers 👍🏻
@@Richard_Barnes I guess it depends on where you go. I don't have home charging, but there is a Tesla Supercharger about a mile away from home. I do about 300 miles a week and charge twice a week. I've never had any issues when I have gone on longer journeys as The navigation in the car will point out the Superchargers on the trip and also will tell me how much range I will have left when I arrive at them.
@@railvlogger1439 Our nearest is only like 4 miles away at the Tesla showroom. I travel for V-Power E5 fuel anyway so that wouldn't bother me. Realistically I'd be charging no more than you but it would all be supercharging though. Can't see me even bothering free slow chargers unless I was staying overnight. 👍🏻
Can I ask, how many EVs you had in 10 year's
Another great, impartial video. You didn’t mention the cost of public charging that people without a driveway need to be aware of. 75p per kwh compared to 7.5p seems unfair especially as the people without a driveway are the ones for whom cheap motoring would possibly benefit the most. We need more chargers and cheaper chargers. At current prices, it’s more expensive per mile than petrol to public charge and that obviously needs to change.
Yes, fast charger are crazy expensive in some places, lucky for me Tesla chargers are much friendlier for me (although I’ve used one twice I think)
If you have no option but to use public charging, then taking out a subscription to the network you use can offer savings. I understand the Ionity Passport can get the 75p per kwh cost down to around 50p, although I haven't been able to verify this.... My local charge network - Charge My Street - charges from 43p to 38p per kwh depending which of the 3 subscription rates you use that they offer.... Charge My Street are only operating in North Lancashire and Cumbria at the moment......
I have no home charger but a neighbour opposite does. My house front garden has no room for a parking space. He allows me to use his and we've never had a conflict. Otherwise I have 6 low powered chargers on lamp posts within 10 minutes walk of home. This seems pretty usual in London where front gardens are often small.
Also, as the car is a Tesla, I am lucky to have a whole bank of Superchargers within 15minutes drive away. Only use the supercharger when it's urgent.Richard
Insurance is eye watering at the moment, so I will spend time to shop around this year.
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Very interesting, and fairminded as usual. Thanks Jim, have a great Christmas!
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Great advice, and another good video. I did approx. 12 months of research before deciding it was definitely the right time to change over to an EV. I not only checked the monthly PCP payments and possible savings against fuel, but I also did insurance quotes (you can do them via Compare the Market on AutoTrader), servicing costs and the estimated cost over the following 3 years to show we could save over £1200.
We recently looked into replacing our current EV with something a bit more modern, and again, I did insurance quotes and servicing costs and we decided now wasn't the time mainly due to increase in insurance. But, we did the same research and found the same results with our previous petrol and diesel cars. I've always done extensive research before committing to a purchase as it's a very expensive mistake to make if you get it wrong.
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Here on the Wirral we have council installed chargers on lamp posts but as you say the parking is not reserved for ev. I’m lucky as I have a Tesla supercharger about 7 miles from me and I’ve subscribed so it’s 40p kWh. InstaVolt are 85p so mega expensive. I’m probably daft but I can’t have charger at home (I live on the 11th floor!) but pick my new one up tomorrow and feel like a kid at Christmas!
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I think it's worth mentioning charging at home without having a home charger which is my situation and has worked really great. Octopus gives you 6 hours of guaranteed low tariff rate but any time they schedule a charge you also get the cheaper rate for the whole house/flat. Basically charging slowly helps me save on electricity and I can still easily charge 120 miles in a night. I find that I wake up every morning with around 80%. Having a home charger would actually increase the average cost of my electricity.
With a 3 pin plug charger you mean? Yes, great 👍
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Yes, just the normal 3 pin plug charging at 2kW or 8 miles per hour. When I request a plan I almost always get near to the required charge even if it takes 12 hours or more all of it charged at 7.5p/kWh. It's more than enough for my needs, specially living in greater London with lots of 20 and 30 mph speed limits. When I go on a trip I start on a full charge, sometimes go down to Kent for a weekend and still don't need to charge and arrive back home with around 10%, over the next two days I'm back at full charge long before the next weekend. If I go a bit further away I top-up at a Tesla Superchager to arrive back home with around 10%.
Thanks for this. I was trying to find out whether the 7.5 rate also applies to the house consumption when charging the car.
I'm still not sure though. Currently on tracker tariff and the day rate on intelligent is higher enough to mean the bill overall is likely to be higher.
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I've been looking at my itemised per hour electricity bills for the last 6 months. What happens is that if you let Octopus control the charging ( basically it's best not to use a smart home charger and just plug to the 3 pin wall socket ), then, every time Octopus gives you a charging plan and the car is charging, you get the cheaper rate for the whole house. Although not guaranteed, from my experience, almost every time you get almost all the time requested even if it's 10 or 12 hours, of course it helps a lot when you're charging slowly otherwise you'd reach the requested percentage of charge very quickly. This is with a Tesla Model 3, it's probably different for other brands. For someone that requires a much faster rate of charging, you can install a 32A wall socket, charge 3 times faster and still not need a home charger. Things can change though, I think the Ford Mach E just lost the ability of being controlled by Octopus so when buying an EV you should always have a plan B. Even if you were charging at a day rate of 31p/kWh, it would cost you less than 8p/mile, roughly half the cost of a petrol car. My plan C was to charge at a Tesla Supercharger 1 mile away from my home at off-peak rate of around 29p/kWh. Luckily for me plan A worked really well costing me 2p/mile while at the same time saving in electricity cost for running appliances and heating water.
Thanks for your video. I found it very helpful.😊
I'm so glad!
I love your honesty and practicality, I got an leased Ev based on your recommendation and also switched my pre existing octopus tariff to the octopus Go based on your advice …Got an Andersen home charger and it does the job. Thanks Jim for the brilliant videos.
Those Andersen units are lovely looking things 👍
👍👍👍 .Thanks Jim. Christmas wishes to you and your family 🤗
Same to you mate, have a good one 👍
I only charge my car when the sun is on my solar panels using a 13 amp plug. This is because I do a low annual mileage and the only time I tried a public charger was at Asda but it did not appear to put much of a charge in. The money I receive for my solar panels more than covers my electricity bills.
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Thank you! I totally agree with you! That is the biggest reason holding me back of getting a BEV (Tesla). I live in a flat in tower block dev without any chargers in the residential car park. Plenty on the streets around BUT quite pricy plus the fact that all are time restricted for and hour or two and have to move the car. While Spring / Summer time might be OK I do not fancy moving the car in Autumn / Winter cold and rainy wether just because of the restricted time on the public charges.
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Completely agree,‘I wouldn’t get an EV without having a home charger either, especially living up north
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Very impressed by your videos by the way.
I appreciate that mate, thank you
Cheers Jim, I always presumed it was mega expensive charging from home. Apparently not 😂
Dirt cheap overnight on a decent tariff. Circa 7.5p kWh vs 30p during the day.
Connected Kerb are spreading all over the country now. Lots in the midlands and South Wales. Just so happens the one in the village I visited at the weekend in St Athan seemed to be the only one not working! Blooming typical. Thank you Tesla for opening the Celtic Manor super charges to non Tesla’s. Saved getting the extension lead out at my mums house.
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I'm using a granny charger at home due to old electricity supply at front of terrace, vehicle at rear. Also charge whilst shopping at Lidl, or having a meal at a pub, so I could easily do without a home charger, it just costs a bit more. Plus look at Coventry, street charger central.
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I used Octopus Energy to install my charger. I opted for one without any cable, so that I could purchase my own longer cable. The installation was more expensive than the one with a cable. It cost me £1,100.. I have also just renewed my EV policy. It jumped from £405 to £439..!! Not really such an expensive jump.
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😊 informative as usual....goes to show we still have a long way to go !
Yes we do
Don't lose sight of the fact that we're basically just 10 years or so into mainstream EV use. The petrol station infrastructure probably wasn't too good after just ten years or so after the motor car hit the road either.....
Yes Jim, brilliant content. I'm grappling with this issue, and so far haven't taken the EV plunge (if indeed one could think of it as a plunge).
ha ha...hipster central... not a million miles from me, but I don't think even in Shoreditch they have super numbers of chargers
oh by the way, the little channel in the pavement, the company that fits those charges a bloody grand!!!
Thanks buddy
I used to work in Alie St so would often wander into Shoreditch, I assumed it would be full of them
Wow, I bet about £600 of that is planning permission, like when you want to drop a kerb
Im seriously tempted get a Corsa e considering how much they have dropped as we have chargers at work. And i could probably do a cheeky charge at home now and again. Costing £40-50 a week in fuel and it's getting on my nerves. Do less than 200 miles per week.
Might not be a bad shout mate
Thanks, got to agree 100%, life would be very difficult and expensive without a home charger. Yes of course it can be donebut even though I am very keen on EVs I would not recommend one to people without home chargers.
On the subject of home chargers, I have been driving an EV for 10 years and was lucky enough to get a free unit courtesy of UK Gov, but it was very basic and my new smart unit will integrate with the very cheap smart tariffs available and with solar panels and with other home tech.
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I have an EV charging point in a stanchion in the pavement opposite my terraced house. A number of residents in the street objected to this charge point being installed, but, needless to say, the Council ignored them and went ahead with it. Only one person in the street owns an EV and this charge point is right outside her house (which is probably why she swapped her Merc SUV for a MGEV!). The space in front of the stanchion is marked as EVs only, but this doesn't seem to stop non ICE owners from parking in it! It is also quite expensive. As I understand it anyone from any street is entitled to use this point, but the stipulation is that the car can only be parked in the space while it is being charged, and should be moved once charged, so that more or less counts out charging it overnight, for example. In short, these types of charge points are A. Annoying because they take up a much needed parking space, B. Totally pointless because they are not really the answer to this problem.
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Currently going trough the fighting motions with my local council to have a gulley or the likes here in Stockport, they are having none of it and are basically saying they are only installing public charging for people with no access to home charging, we all know that public charging alone isn't the complete picture and will not work.. but hey, I cant believe I'm fighting my local council for this! willing to spend money etc.. Its making owning electric cars way more expensive than the combustion engine variant at the moment.. ill be getting my first EV soon - eyes open to the fact that ill be having to public charge but the research I've been doing.. its not the best picture :( maybe its the north west and things are better elsewhere..
Local councils should be bending over backwards to help people finding their own solutions. Absolute muppets.
I live in a flat and can’t have a home charger. Generally I don’t now have problems charging at public chargers. The only issue at present can be super high price of electricity at public chargers.
Luckily i have found chargers that cost between 30 -50p kWh fairly locally.
I live near Manchester so generally the public and on street charging network isn’t anything like the so called London and Home Counties. We get totally ignored by the on street lamp post systems.
I expect tesla will introduce competition on public chargers.
When i travel to Europe EV charging is much cheaper than UK.
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I leased a Tesla Model 3 about 18 months ago, and as I live in a flat I rely on the public charging network. Luckily I pass by a Tesla Supercharger on the way to work. I do a 40 mile round trip and charge twice a week.
On another subject I cant find your video on the black wheel trims you bought. I want to get some, as I lost one of my standard wheel trims, I think while driving through a flood. If you can send me the link, that would be great. Merry Christmas
It’s coming out on 29th December mate. They look great in my opinion.
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@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Thanks, just ordered them with the ' Tesla' centre caps thrown in. BARGAIN.
@@railvlogger1439 I didn’t get the centre caps with mine, it would certainly finish them off
I looked at the electric Kona, I don’t have the ability to have a home charger so did some research. A 103 mile top up on a public charger will cost over £17 (16.9p per mile). I get 55-60mpg from my current Kona hybrid. I think it stated home charging if possible would have been £7
Overnight on a decent tariff would cost a fraction of that mate.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Yeah, this was a zap map estimate. It’s just a shame I can’t have a charger fitted. The big shock was the public charging costs which do seem to be increasing rapidly.
Public charging needs some regulation, seems a bit like the wild west right now
A friend at work bought an Enyaq without getting a home charger. Our office have a limited number of charging points but they are free to use (for now) hes now done 1200 miles without paying a penny! Its great if you can get it to work for you.
Great perk eh!
I work for the NHS in Plymouth, we have 1x 22Kw chargepoint at our site. This used to be free for many years until last month, where they now charge 55p per KwH.
I only do a low annual mileage so just use a granny cable for charging. I known it costs a bit more than overnight useage but then I assume the daytime electricity charge would be higher than the normal standard rate. Also the conditions of having a charger installed is that I would have to have a smart meter which I don't want. I think that once there is a large majority of people buying and charging EV's then you will see these cheap rates disappear rapidly.
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There are now tariffs which offer the off-peak rate for charging an EV at *anytime* of the day, although energy used for other things is charged at the usual rate.....I think it was EDF offering this.... Off-peak rates have been around for 50+ years. There is actually a technical reason why electricity is offered at vastly reduced rates during the night hours, and this position is unlikely to change.
EV cars replacing ICE cars was/is a great idea, but the government (in the UK) need to pull their socks up. Car manufacturers have poured billions into developing cars that can replace ICE cars, and the general population are accepting the change. Most concerns with the people I speak to about changing to EV are regarding availability, convenience and cost (without a home charger) of charging. My home insurance refuse to cover charging cables that are outside my home boundary and my local council won't allow any alterations to accommodate charging from my home without public liability cover, so I imagine a lot of people will have to take out separate public liability insurance to cover across/under pavement cables. I feel the UK in it's current state is like the lightbulb has been invented before electricity has been supplies to households, and the government is wondering why people aren't buying lightbulbs (obviously light bulbs are a fire risk too, I'll stick with my candles 🤣). I'm dropping my car in for a service tomorrow and will probably get an EV courtesy car (my first ever drive in a full EV), but I won't have the choice of owning an EV until the country leaders develop brains.
Fair enough mate 👍👍
I agree with you, if you currently don’t have a drive too charge on and you do more mileage per week than the car can do. Just stick with your ICE for now. But I am also cheap and lazy. Also the public charging infrastructure is far too expensive if they were charging around 35-40p per kw might be different. Maybe that’s why Teslas are so popular. There chargers are the cheapest currently, if you own a Tesla.
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My local public charge network does. They charge from 38p to 43p per kwh, depending which of the 3 subscription rates you use that they offer..... Not as cheap as home charging of course, but still way cheaper than using petrol...
Yep - I wouldn’t have an EV if I couldn’t get a home charger
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Slots in pavements for terrace house chargers are being allowed by some county coincils
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No charger at home or possible though neighbours trail wires across the pavements (brick pavements). The county council produced document on EV planning mapping out plans to add more chargers to public car parks as street level wasn't readily possible for many. Good thinking but then the newly added chargers I see, 7kw, charge 88p/Kw. Councils are strapped for cash and while these chargers aren't used much, so aren't a cash cow, at least provision isn't a further drain on resources. This has to work better for non home charging EV people.
7kw at 88p is a complete joke; it needs proper regulation as seems to be the wild west at the moment
Hi Jim, something like that.
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Most councils are installing lamp post chargers.
Not most, some.
I would rephrase your statement that I wouldn’t get an EV without an access to a free/cheap charger. I’m just getting an EV, I don’t have a home charger, but I do have access to a free charger at the office, where I’m typically 2-3 times a week. This should be absolutely fine, or so I hope 😂
Nice perk! 👍
chargelight went bust in august :(
Oh well, plenty of others doing the same thing
You might not believe this but it’s true ,I have a fabulous diesel Mercedes and I don’t have a home diesel pump
Wow
Some quick quotes and I'm looking at over £1,100 with massive £800 excesses or even more on some of them. That's £700 more than my S3 now which for me, equates to 2,800 miles of driving my S3, so yeh for now I'll pass. Realistically I think I'd lease one anyway... Cheers for the info 👍🏻😄
👍👍 Nowt wrong with an S3!
I agree that I would find it hard to use an EV without being able to charge at home.
I used Utley EV based near Wetherby for our Easee One Charger who did a great job. No I don't work for them and don't get paid by them.
We have 6 7kw Pod Point Changers in our village. 45p per KWH and limited to 3 hours as they are in a supermarket car park!
Our nearest working rapid charger appears to be at a service station on the A1
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what do you think about the 8 car manufactures stopping making evs because they can sell the tens of thousands they all ready have
I couldn’t care less. In no way would it affect me if it’s even true.
I thought it was only recommended that you charge to 80% unless going on a long journey?
It is generally but battery chemistry is different in mine 😂
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru so On a Tesla you can charge 100% all the time?
No Problem using public charging I don’t have my own Charger
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Where I live you couldn't have charging from streetlights, the asbo teens would definitely mess with that
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Also the cost of public charging isnt viable. Makes it no better than driving a diesel, which is still more convenient.
Not all public charging is so expensive but it would certainly make a lot of people think twice
A good charger costs a fair bit more than a grand. More like £1000-1700. You can get cheaper ones but they are very slow and not smart chargers.
Depends where you live maybe but I completely disagree. There are plenty of very good smart chargers available for a grand or less fully installed mate - shop around maybe
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru okay thanks, will do
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Basically if you haven't got a driveway and the money to buy the car etc then it's a waste of time. From a brief bit of research around 40% of households haven't off street parking, add to that second or third cars that can't get of the road despite having a drive then we could be talking half the motoring population. So EV market has ultimately lost half it's business model, who's gonna invest in the mass instillation of public chargers with figures in mind if we're seriously going to make the switch? Even if they started on it now it'll take years, your EV will be old by then and you'll of spent all that time messing about, especially on long journeys.
As I said in the video I wouldn't have an EV without a home charger to be fair (yes I have one), public charging is nowhere near as bad as some TH-camrs make out but I'd hate to use it regularly and cost and convenience of charging at home makes it for long journeys only. Horses for courses.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru I hope it takes off, but I won't be investing quite yet...👍
EV’s have a place for some but there are still too many shortcomings and problems ahead yet for mass adoption for all of us. The National Grid estimates that five times as many high-voltage transmission lines (suspended from pylons or buried underground) will need to be installed before 2030 as were built in the past three decades combined to be able to cope with upcoming demands. Can’t see that happening anytime soon. Unless the infrastructure upgrade gets on track shortfalls in supply (like the one you experienced) will start to impact charging levels as more people adopt EV’s. And as always, the cost of the infrastructure upgrade will soon be passed back on to the consumer in the price we all pay for electricity so even those without EV’s will end up paying more. Food for thought.. Great content as always Jim.
I think "Vehicle to Grid" and off-peak charging along with the greater adoption of solar etc in private homes will mitigate things a bit; I also read something polarizing from National Grid in pro and anti EV articles that totally contradict one another (I always assume both are nonesense).
I'd never try to talk anyone into or out of an EV; if it suits you then great, if it doesn't also great. I'll continue to go to bed each night and just hope I wake up again, anything else is a bonus.
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defi@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Definitely agree Jim, Important to avoid any propaganda from both sides of the EV debate. I Just look at the facts of the matter and try to be aware of the bigger picture. Happy Christmas Fella.👍
DNAG you said "People who cant have a home charger are in the vast majority".
This is simply incorrect. Aprox 70% of houses *with cars* have a private parking space and so could charge at home. (source, RAC)
Of course it doesnt take away from how to charge if you are one of the 30% , but then again 100% of ICE owners are unable to refuel at home and that didnt stop ICE cars becoming popular. As the major supermarkets roll out charging (Sainsburys, 1,000 *this year* for example) this will likely become a major place for the 30% because I suspect most of these have access to a supermarket.
Thanks for correcting me with the RAC stat. So what I should have said was that 30% of the country will have to pay 5-10 times more to charge their cars than the other 70%.
You will struggle to convert those who are forced into paying 40-90p per kwh. I'm an EV owner and EV fan, I even present an EV podcast - but I'm also a realist.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru agreed, but it is a key point that there is no barrier for 70%.
But yes we need action to enable those who can't charge at home to charge at better rates, at least at this approaching petrol equivalence. From memory thats around 40p kWh.. I suspect the likes of Sainsbury's etc are currently 2x that. But, 40p or less is available on the Tesla SC network at some times already. So this is not an unrealistic goal.
40p is a lot more than 7.5 - price and convenience will help that 30% justify the change more than anything.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru true but given that ICE owners will queue for ages just to save 10p a litre (been to a Costco lately?) then a price that's say 1/2 petrol even if not the full max cheaper rate you can get would still be a deal. (and amazingly apparently only a minority of EV users are on cheap overnight tariffs)
I disagree and I have literally thousands of comments from viewers that say it’s the biggest single factor in why they don’t have an EV (live in a flat or a terrace etc).
People have other concerns about EV (often fuelled by media BS) but add not being able to charge at home into the mix and it’s a turn off. That’s just the way it is.
Most Evs have apps to stop charging at 80%
Pretty much all EVs allow you to choose your own charge limit. 🤷🏻♂️
My son charges at work for free. His employer is putting in loads of them.
That’s brilliant, a lot of firms are doing it but not all are so generous 👍
My neighbour charges at work for free and I am so jealous. Fantastic perk
If this isn't an option and you can't charge at home EV's aren't currently viable
If you're an EV owner and are wondering how you can spend less time at charging stations and more time on the road, it's quite simple. Sell it and buy a gasoline or diesel powered car. 🚗
Great insight
I'm more than happy for the EV worshippers, but I'm never going to join the congregation, nothing like feeling you're not welcome.😭
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