Highland Council to increase cost of electric charging points

[Goodfellers]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...lands-64424890

It seems a typical all electric car does about 3 miles per Kwh https://www.selectcarleasing.co.uk/h.../miles-per-kwh

And a typical petrol car does 50mpg.

Petrol would need to be around £2.53 per litre to equal the cost of a fast charger in Inverness at 70p/kwh, that's if you can find a working one without a queue. Petrol in Inverness last week at Tesco was £1.38/litre

How is this encouraging us to make the swap?

I know it's cheaper to charge at home.

[Corky Smeek]

Hold on to your hat Goodfellers!

I agree with you. Yep, not a typo'; I agree with you.

[Goodfellers]

Hold on to your hat Goodfellers!

I agree with you. Yep, not a typo'; I agree with you.

It was bound to happen one day!

[The Horseman]

Standard charging at home takes approx 25 hours with standard 3 pin plug.
Dedicated home charger 8+ hours.
Rapid charger, if u can find one..5+ hours!

I was just reading that 25% of Chargers were not working, and many of the rest had intermittent faults.
Unbelievable!
What are the Most popular UK E-Vehicles?

And latest Headlines in Canada….Electric vehicles costs more to operative than those with Combustion engines!

[Fulmar]

They are way too expensive for many folk to afford to buy in the first place before you even consider the charging aspect.

[Goodfellers]

I drive across the causewaymire regularly, what I find astonishing is that often over half the huge wind turbines aren't running. I am told it's because there isn't the demand locally and at the moment there aren't big enough cables to transport the surplus electricity south. There should be some mechanisim whereby the Highland Council could approve windfarms (of which there are still many applications going through) IF they could offer the council 'cheap' electricity purely for fast charging points.

As for charging 20p for slower chargers and 70p for fast chargers, why? If Tesco offered a super fast fuel pump for petrol, I wouldn't expect to pay more for the petrol. No matter how fast it's delivered a kilowatt of electricity is exactly that and I bet the cost to the council is the same per unit.

We've been toying with the idea of an electric car for several years, but still aren't persuaded. Making the running costs more than an ICE just puts us off even more, and apparently the vehicle tax exemption is ending too. As Fulmar says, they are far more expensive to buy in the first place. I'm all for helping save the environment, but political leaders, locally and nationally need to understand that cost is a huge issue. I know of two families locally who have owned an electric vehicle, but have now gone back to petrol!

I've been told all the mobility vehicles supplied by the Scottish govt are going to become electric only in a few years. That's going to cause a lot of problems I'm sure. Not everyone can have a fast charger at home. It will also massivly increase the demand for charging points away from home. There needs to be massive investment in charging points before were all forced into electric cars. Let's hope it happens!