Your experience with electric vehicles when you cannot charge at home or work?

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Does anyone have any experience of EVs when you cannot charge them at home or work? I.e. you are reliant on public charging points.
 
adidan said:
You can't think of an instance?
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No, I can’t think of a house that doesn’t have a single 3 pin socket. Does OP live in a tower block then? If so then he’s either in a relatively fancy flat and got enough money to publicly charge what is likely deemed a luxury vehicle, or he’s in a council block of flats so likely cannot afford an ev in the first place.
 
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adidan said:
Well the wording of the OP for starters

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So you’d charge at a public fast charger? Why do people expect it to be a given that electric has to be cheaper than petrol?

The answer here is that if you can’t charge at home or work, just like people who mysteriously can’t get petrol at home or work, you’d go to a public charging station. Difference being that you’d have to wait 20 mins rather than 5 to get petrol.
 
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Stu999 said:
I can’t believe he went for the double-down :D
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It’s a dumb question, ev’s arent some mystical creature that stop working if you can’t plug them in at home. Supercharging or other fast charging services don’t cost more than petrol, the only possible inconvenience is the longer time to wait, which is easily mitigated by planning ahead with shopping trips etc.
 
pioneer2000 said:
No, I can’t think of a house that doesn’t have a single 3 pin socket. Does OP live in a tower block then? If so then he’s either in a relatively fancy flat and got enough money to publicly charge what is likely deemed a luxury vehicle, or he’s in a council block of flats so likely cannot afford an ev in the first place.
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There are houses near where I work with the house set back, on the top of a banked garden, about 50-100 feet from the road (double yellows out the front so they couldn't even run something out there at a cost) with no drive, etc. and allocated parking spots along a side road about 100+ feet from the nearest house. (The houses are 1800s build so car wasn't really a thing).
 
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Rroff said:
There are houses near where I work with the house set back, on the top of a banked garden, about 50-100 feet from the road (double yellows out the front so they couldn't even run something out there at a cost) with no drive, etc. and allocated parking spots along a side road about 100+ feet from the nearest house.
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So public charging? Can’t spare 20mins? Sounds like we’re inventing fringe cases now (no road access, no drive, no plug sockets, no public charging, drive a million miles a day etc.)
 
Then there’s the cost the cheapest electric Smart Fortwo Coupe with 1000 miles is £22995 at the main dealer where I bought mine. Their range is 80 miles, I paid £15000 for my brand new petrol Smart Fortwo cabriolet automatic in 2019. The only good thing about the electric one is that it supports CarPlay as well as Android Auto.

I wouldn’t like hanging around at a public charger waiting for it to charge.
 
For me, I live in a terrace that fronts straight into the pavement. Perhaps 20% of the time I can park in front my house where I could run a cable to charge, 80% of the time I'm parked too far away.

So, charging at home is just out. There are some public chargers in the village but they're too expensive to make economic sense to rely on.
 
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