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It’s not just you and I recoiling in shock every time we have to buy more electricity, noting how the usual couple hundred’s worth hardly gets us anywhere these days.

Electric car drivers in the UK are also being slammed by the soaring wholesale costs of gas and electricity.

The country is trying to push drivers into electrification – sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK will be banned from 2030 – but this transition isn’t helped by the fact that charging your car costs close to what it costs to fill up your tank with petrol.

UK motoring group RAC has found that the cost of charging an electric car using public charge points on a pay-as-you-go basis has risen by 42% in just four months, Sky News reports:

The motoring group said the average price for using the chargers has increased by 18.75p per kilowatt hour (kWh) since May, reaching 63.29p per kWh.

The latest figures show a driver exclusively using rapid or ultra-rapid public chargers pays around 18p per mile for electricity, compared with roughly 19p per mile for petrol and 21p per mile for diesel.

Drivers who use public rapid and ultra-rapid chargers more often are being hit the hardest.

Considering this, it makes sense that an AA survey of 12 500 UK drivers found many are being put off making the switch to an electric car and are keen to stick to petrol or diesel models.

Although, as RAC spokesman Simon Williams mentions, even though the “gap is narrowing as a result of the enormous increases in the cost of electricity,” charging a car still costs less than refuelling a petrol or diesel car.

AA head of roads policy Jack Cousens concurred by saying “the reality is that even with the hike in domestic electricity costs, running an EV is considerably cheaper than a petrol or diesel car”.

It’s the little gains here and there…

[source:skynews]