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My plans to buy a Y would change if that were the case.
Over half of the current cost of petrol and diesel is tax (57.95 pence per litre fuel duty and then 20% VAT added on top) so imagine the gov't doing the same to electricity for use in a vehicle.
Let's say a litre of fuel carries a car 10 miles (~45mpg), that's 7p tax/mile.
Assume supercharging is 24p/kWh and the car goes 3 miles, making it 8p/mile. This means that a similar rate of duty would double the cost of charging our cars en-route. It's worse if you're charging at home on a cheap tarrif e.g. 5p/kWh overnight, paying about 2p/mile as you'd now be paying 5x the price. I think this is why chargers need to have wifi to be eligible for the OLEV grant.
No thanks!
Free of the crowds, a stretch of the legs, and unlikely to be ICE’d. That’s my kind of charger.
After a couple of days micro-trip to the beach at Woolacoombe we travelled back last night. M3 LR offered the plan back to Nottinghamshire - first stop Gordano services to arrive with 8% SoC. On my own I probably would have gone for it but I had a car full of stuff, 3 passengers and it was very heavy rain.
I didn't fancy diverting for the limited local Instavolt options so decided to shoot for these new Ionity units which are well located if you are coming back onto the M5 from N Devon.
I've never used Ionity before for all the reasons widely discussed on this forum but on this occasion the convience outweighed the cost and it worked out well.
Usual (non-SC experience) faffing about with payment authorisation but got it started after a couple of attempts. Started at 175kW but soon dropped to around 100kW. Slurped enough electrons to get me to Michaelwood services and left. No one else there, 4 units with bases ready for another 2 at some point in the future by the looks of it.
Definately a good option for the back pocket.
I didn't fancy diverting for the limited local Instavolt options so decided to shoot for these new Ionity units which are well located if you are coming back onto the M5 from N Devon.
I've never used Ionity before for all the reasons widely discussed on this forum but on this occasion the convience outweighed the cost and it worked out well.
Usual (non-SC experience) faffing about with payment authorisation but got it started after a couple of attempts. Started at 175kW but soon dropped to around 100kW. Slurped enough electrons to get me to Michaelwood services and left. No one else there, 4 units with bases ready for another 2 at some point in the future by the looks of it.
Definately a good option for the back pocket.
Has been since it opened, I think. Used it 3 times so far, and like Cambridge there was one broken stall and one stall limited to ~30kW (which implies only a single module out of a set is working, or the chiller is broken). Seems their latest hardware is not quite ready for roll-out.
bitmanEV
Member
The most recent comments on ZapMap say it's no longer free. I was there a few weeks ago when it was on free vend, but at 69p/KWh I won't be going back!
FlyingTimbo
Member
I wonder why Ionity chargers are so unreliable. Maybe they should put their prices up so they can be maintained properly. ;-)
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