UK EV Driving Will Be Unaffordable Without Off Street Parking
We have six new rapid EV chargers just installed at our local shopping centre, which have replaced 50kW chargers
With news this week that EV’s will face pay-per-mile charges from 2028, these new chargers are a reminder that driving will become not only unpractical but unaffordable for anybody without off street parking.
It is estimated that this is the case for at least 40 percent of car owners.
Let’s take the Kia EV3 as an example. This is Kia’s compact SUV, with OTR price of £36005 for the 81 kWh basic version.
This is about £10,000 more than an equivalent petrol model. It has a claimed range of 375 miles, but this will be more like 230 miles in real world conditions, according to Grok:
Efficiency is reckoned at 3.3 to 4.0miles/kWh – call it 3.6 miles.
On annual mileage of 10,000, electricity consumption would be 2777 kWh. And at 89p/kWh, which is the price at our new charging station, that works out at a cost of £2471 a year.
A diesel would run at maybe 40 mpg, which at current prices comes to £1590 a year. But half of that is fuel duty – pre tax, the annual cost would be about £800.
One way or another, our Kia EV3 driver will have to pay that tax eventually, on top of his charger bill of £2471.
Quite simply, ordinary people will not be able to afford to run their already expensive to buy car, if they are forced to use public chargers.
Which has probably been the Government’s plan all along!
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