It’s also why comparisons of fossil fuel prices and public charging prices are broadly irrelevant as most EV drivers only pay public rates on occasions when they’re far from home (some often, some rarely). Drivers with ICE vehicles pay those rates for every single kilometre.
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Yes it comes as a pleasant surprise to me. Using the actual Km per KwH value measured over the current lifetime of my car and the cost I pay for off peak electricity, it costs me €3.00 to drive 100 km. This is much less than the value I used when calculating the financial viability of buying it.
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Hi. It’s been a while since anyone commented here… Just got 1st EV (Kona) with Elroq 60 coming next Thursday… Need some advice what people are doing for charging ? Both will normally be charged at home on 7.4Kw, but 10 day trip from South Manche (50) to London then Liverpool coming soon and I’m finding all the options a bit overwhelming. Thanks for any Input.
A better route planner app may help as you can enter the vehicle make and it will estimate charging stops. If you need to, sign up for membership of a network for charging otherwise you nay pay a premium rate for charging on your journey.
As @Corona says, use ABRP to plot your route based on you preferred charging networks. When we go to Glasgow, I usually take a month’s subscription to either Ionity or Tesla and set those as my preferred network. The subscription reduces the price significantly and will pay for itself over one or two charges.
Not all Tesla chargers are open to non-Tesla so you need to set your preferences correctly or use the Tesla app.
Bear in mind that charging in the UK can be very expensive if you don’t choose wisely, with some networks approaching £1 per kWh.
If you do use ABRP, then I prefer to export the route to Google maps as ABRP routing isn’t great in my experience.
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Thanks. Yes I see there is a lot of choice for which app/card is best. Don’t care too much about price, more concerned about availability. After trying to use a 22Kw charger yesterday at 20% in Carrefour carpark I realised it was only charging at 7 and would take 4 hours to 80%. Stuff like this was new to me, but good to learn it now, not try to learn with 2 grandkids in the back in the UK.!
Also DC fast chargers… Going to be unavoidable, but is going 10-80 % not too bad ? Gonna be a brand new Skoda Elroq, don’t really wanna start deteriorating the battery, or am I worrying about nothing ? Thanks.
A little, the fast charging occasionally has no detrimental effect on the battery. Most charging being done on the slower chargers. A taxi driver who only ever rapid charges is still fine after 500k miles.
OK cheers. Yes, It will be mainly charged at home, as I suspected an occasional fast charge to 80% should be fine.
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Mines always charged to 95%
Doesn’t it go up to eleven? 
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Only if you really push it
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I’ve not checked but if your car only uses single phase AC charging (as many do) then all you will get from any 22kW charger is around 7kW i.e. only one phase of the three.
Thanks, Interesting video.
Thanks. Yes, I figured that was the issue. At first I thought it was a problem with the car, but a quick search online mentioned that.
Type 2 charging port for AC charging and CCS for DC rapid charging so should be able to fast charge up to 50kw on CCS, or 22kw on the slower type2
It seems it depends on the car. The 39 kWh Kona (2023 model) we just bought, has a limit of 44 kW on fast DC charging.
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Yes depends what’s on board regarding charging. At least you know you can go a bit quicker if needs be.
I have a 2024 Kona with same size smaller battery. If I had to do a long journey, I would plan on a half hour stop every 200 km using DC charging to 80%. Depends a lot on style of driving and payload but the guessometer seems pretty accurate. I did do a 350km drive starting at 100% and made it home with a few Kms spare (just as a test exercise). In fact I would start any long journey with a 100% home charged battery.
It takes a while to get the range anxiety out of your system but once you have, welcome to the clean quiet calm world of EV motoring. You may wonder how you used to put up with dirty smelly unpleasant petrol stations. 
I have no special home charger. I just have a domestic power supply to the mailbox where I park the car where I keep a permanently connected granny lead in a box riveted underneath the mailbox. It takes 15 seconds to plug in when I park and is programmed to use off peak electricity.
I hope this is reassuring for you.
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