The cost of EV charging has increased!!

Agreed. If they do that for one type of car user they can do it for others. 

Actually makes the Gorilla look financially efficient. I suppose those glueing themselves to the M25 will tell us there’s a price worth paying.

It would be immoral. So much of the green agenda is wealth transfer by taxing the poor to pay the rich. And yet, people kick off when tax changes are proposed to allow hard workers to keep the money they’ve earned. .

I think the cost is currently 28p/kWh or c58mpg

It could also very well be argued that those who can afford a high end EV are not the ones in dire need of government support in order to better afford the cost of fast charging stations. I know not everyone driving an EV is rich but if we have to prioritise who gets help with the cost of energy I can see this not being that near the top of the pile.

Watched this yesterday.
Was surprised at the result and had me thinking about something a friend of mine experienced in his brand new Polestar 2.
The battery loses charge over time. He parked his car at my parents place and over 10 days, it lost 7-10% charge.

The current inflation levels (somehow named as “cost of living crisis” in the media) demonstrate that the only way to alter mass consumer behaviour is via a price-value gauge.

When Diseasal was the tax efficient option for company car users the roads were awash with chuggers. When the price of electricity was low and there was a tax benefit EVs suddenly became the thing to have. When there was no C-Charge PHEV sales in the Home Counties no doubt increased.

Now that the electricity spike price is more expensive than the LME platinum spot-price EVs are about as welcome amongst private users as Nigel Farage would be in a south London steel-drum band.

Which means almost no one was buying diesels, EVs or PHEVs for the holier-than-thou environment reasons. It’s all about the money. Who’d have thought……..?

Is that all sales or EV in particular?

Exactly. I get 22p per mile and am lucky if I can get it to 30p.

Company EV drivers are doing to be compensated over and above the HMRC rate (which will be taxed of course), a concept I struggled with when we discussed it at the last Exec meeting. Partly because I under recover significantly but also because they’ve all made huge savings in tax by moving to an EV. I have very little sympathy, but I would have been a line voice in the meeting.

All sales have dropped to a degree, I would say more due to the time of year as it does get quieter as Christmas approaches, however EV sales have dropped to a far greater degree. 

What was it?

Synthetic / plant based fuels that offer the ability to maintain the current worldwide fleet and refuelling infrastructure should be more of a target than the idiocy of trying to create an entirely new fleet of non-combustion engines in a very short space of time. 

The UK energy grid is currently producing at 410g per kilowatt which makes the average electric car a lot more CO2 intensive than an average ICE car like a 520d. Are company cars still taxed on emissions? We really need a serious conversation about what the objective of all this as it’s a losing situation for too many people.

There’s a lot wrong with this system.

The I4 is still dirtier than a 520d in the UK today (before we even think about how it was made) but in Germany the kilowatt average is 741g so those electric car drivers would be better off in a Discovery. It was even worse when they charged their cars last night at 797g/kw. Sustainable.