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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
That's why I said those who can. In 18 months we've only had one issue and that was waiting maybe 20 mins for a charger to become free on one of our monthly trips from West Yorkshire to North Wales.
We're still on a ridiculously cheap night-time tariff of 4.69 p/kWh, but even when it goes up next July I'm confident it'll be well under 10 p/kWh. To put that in to context, I used to get about 300 miles out of a £60 tank of petrol - would cost much more now I'd wager. The car we've got now uses about 30 KW per 100 miles so even at 10 p/kWh that's £9 to fill it up. Well worth a few mins inconvenience once every 18 months.
We used to pay about £300/month petrol and £250/month gas and electric. Now we've had solar and batteries fitted we're paying £0/month petrol £140/month gas and electric and we're £1200 in credit.
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If you ever get to visit Beamish open air museum they have a 1900s ‘zone’ which includes a garage, and they have a load of jerrycans stacked up - this was how you used to get your petrol in the early days.
50 years from now, people will look back on this era and it will seem like that to them. Quaint and a bit ramshackle and hit and miss. It is certainly the case that driving electric requires a little planning, especially if you’re going any great distance, and TBH if you are going long distance it is annoyingly expensive because the charger operators are absolutely gouging the market due to lack of local competition. But if circumstances permit, and you can plan for it, then electric motoring is cheap, clean and really quite fun.