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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. 14:50 - Aug 21 with 7007 views

EV arrives in the next couple of weeks. Seems to be hundreds of different types of EV charging points and nearly as many apps - what's the best one? Do any of them consolidate the different types etc.?

I'll be driving an Ioniq 5.

Edit - widening to general advice about driving an EV. Cheers.

EDIT 2 - Now got the car, update post down the thread.

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 18:49 - Sep 30 by Lord_Lucan
There was a bloke on the radio the other day who was explaining that a simple shunt could b@her the batteries up and the repair cost is huge. I’m all for progress and green things but I can’t help thinking the EV is the new Squarial - atm.

This may have emerged in the course of this thread, but I was talking to a friend who bought an electric car about a year ago and had concluded that it was not really practical to use for journeys from west Kent to Bath and back to visit his brother because of the difficulties with charging.

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 21:27 - Sep 30 by DJR
This may have emerged in the course of this thread, but I was talking to a friend who bought an electric car about a year ago and had concluded that it was not really practical to use for journeys from west Kent to Bath and back to visit his brother because of the difficulties with charging. [Post edited 30 Sep 2023 21:33]

I'm currently having to drive up to Grimsby way and then on to two places in West Midlands. I am a busy boy and hardly have time to stop for Diesel - Electric charge - no way baby

Plus, in our vans - we carry class 1 explosives, insurance is a nightmare at the best of times = and vans do about 50 miles????????????????

Ok, so I realise I'm not the average Joe but for us EV's are impossible, even as a car. How the hell do I have time to find a power supply and wait.

Seems to me that at present EV's are only of use to lazy bastards and communists.

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 21:37 - Sep 30 by Lord_Lucan

Out of interest do you know what it costs to charge at a public charging point for each 250 to 300 miles?

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 21:45 - Sep 30 by BanksterDebtSlave
Out of interest do you know what it costs to charge at a public charging point for each 250 to 300 miles?

No, I haven't a clue Stevey.

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 21:59 - Sep 30 by Lord_Lucan
No, I haven't a clue Stevey.

Any takers?

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EDIT - EV advice including charging point apps etc. on 21:45 - Sep 30 by BanksterDebtSlave
Out of interest do you know what it costs to charge at a public charging point for each 250 to 300 miles?

One assumes that there is some sort of non public charging going on here? But if you want to use the following guidelines as a rough way of working it out, all be it based on my own driving in my EV, then you’ll not go far wrong.

I have a Kia EV6, had it for 3-4 weeks now and stats read something like this , it has a 77kw battery and I’m currently averaging around 3.8miles/kw, that gives me an average of around 295 miles on a full charge (give or take a few miles depending on what roads I’m on). Public charging from what I’ve seen so far ranges from 62p/kwh on a 50kw charger at Tesco, up to 79p/kwh on a rapid 150kw charger at the Ipswich P&R, now you never turn up at a charger with nothing left in the batteries but let’s say for arguments sake you did then that works out at between £47.74 & £60.83 based on those prices for the car I have, just to add some context here using a cheap octopus go tariff that gives me 4 hours per night at 9p/kwh I can charge fully for £6.93!

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