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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
I don’t think they will go to those prices. Trouble is Ionity have had to invest in very expensive charger tech to be able to offer the rate of charge some high end cars will be able to take.
One bonus of those very high rates per Kw are that it will hopefully deter drivers stopping any longer than needed, and doing main charge at home...
Baub, your ‘serious’ post has a point. Now new home charge meters are ‘smart’, there should be an easy way of calculating the cost per use...  Prob something n the small print about not for resale, though! |
No commercial company is going to throw money away , so will expect some return on their investment .
Oxford City Council has installed 30 street chargers , [ & hoping to do another 70 ] , all paid for by taxpayers money , approx £25000 per unit .
[Back of an envelope calc here ]. But even if they charged Ionity,s 69 pence per KWh & were in use 24 hours a day , even without maintenance costs they would still be losing taxpayers money after a years use .