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LIVING WITH AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE
I read your Editorial from the April 2022 issue and some of the things you mentioned aren’t quite right/ conflicting and I thought I would recount my real life experience going from ICE to EV.
With reference to EV’s and the cost of charging, you rightly say many are free, lots of new installations being done where 15 minutes is free – our local Tesco has this. The local council business centre is free all day! You say a Nissan LEAF 40kWh motor – it should of course be a 40kWh BATTERY – the motors being upwards of 80kW.
You state it takes 13hrs to charge at a cost of £6 from a domestic socket. Most people would choose an EV tariff like Octopus GO, the tariff gives peak rate at 13.1p and off-peak at 5p per kWh – these have now gone up to 29.2p and 7.5p. Charging on the off-peak rate at 7.5p would cost £3 assuming all 40kW was needed. 9000 miles based on the 168-mile range you quote would cost £160 on the latest tariffs. The petrol car by comparison with today’s horrific petrol price would cost £1652+. The figures for the LEAF are assuming 4.2 miles per kWh. Cost of public rapid charging has increased nowadays
