1 BRITISH POUND PER KILOWATT HOUR!!!
That’s an absolutely INSANE price and an electric car charging station in Britain is asking that much, making electric FAR MORE expensive than petrol.
Electric car chargepoint operator Osprey ups rates to record 1 GPB per kWh making it pricier than fuelling a petrol model
Osprey Charging has increased the cost to use its rapid devices by more than 50% on rising wholesale prices Charging rates hiked from 66p per kWh to 1 GPB - that means each charge of a family EV will rise to around 40 GPB MY COMMENT: Unless it’s a Tesla, that raises the price to 80 british pounds, MINIMUM, and some EV’s will cost considerably more than that to charge, it’s all about battery capacity and the higher the better. 40 KWH is for the lowest electric cars on the road now.-
With wholesale electricity prices continuing to soar, he said the company had been put in a ‘difficult position’
My comment: This is where electric is going, if you have an electric car you had better get solar panels at home and keep them a secret or you’ll end up being charged for using them, that’s happening more and more these days. Obviously the electric cars are a trap, they want people totally dependent on electric and then they’ll just say there’s a “power shortage” and either jack the prices to impossible levels or cut everyone off.
To put this in perspective, charging 1 pound per KWH will make a 12 mile trip in a Tesla cost about $4 USD IF you are taking it easy. $4 would get you about 10 seconds of “ludicrous mode”. I once had a Ford F250 with a 460 in it. I tested it and if you were doing the ultimate light foot you could eke 18 MPG on the freeway at about 60. Gas was cheap at that time, so I put in my head the truck could get 18 and proceeded to get about 4 MPG because that much power was too much fun. Acceleration is a PRIMARY reason why people buy Tesla, even the slowest Tesla is a monster, electric prices at that price will make driving a Tesla simply not viable for most people.