Electric car owners waste £13.2 million a month on public charging

Electric car owners have been warned they are losing millions of pounds every month by not charging them at home.

Drivers are ‘wasting’ nearly £13.2 million a month when they power up their cars elsewhere rather than using a cheaper home charger, new data has revealed.


In an attempt to prevent drivers from losing money, Cord urged motorists to purchase a charging point that can be installed at home to help combat high costs.

The charging point operator found that around 221,000 electric vehicle owners do not have a device and are resorting to using expensive public stations to power their vehicles.

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At least 143,000 drivers depend on public charging And He spendsBetween £92 and £138 extra on shipping all per month compared to off-peak charging at home.

Paul Tomlinson, co-founder of Cord, explained how “too many” EV drivers are missing out on the best part of driving an EV, “waking up to a fully fueled car that costs less than a takeaway coffee to charge overnight”.

Instead, he warned, drivers are waiting at public charging stations and spending a cumulative £13.2 million more than they need to each month.

“Obviously the big issue here is that there are ten million homes across the UK without any off-street parking, which makes installing a home charger more difficult – but not impossible,” Tomlinson said.

The government recently extended it its own standards for one time A grant for electric cars allows drivers to get a discount of £350 or 75 per cent of the cost of purchasing and installing a socket, whichever is less.

Tomlinson added that while drivers are doing “the right thing for the planet,” they should make sure they are doing “the right thing” for their wallets, too.

Despite the government spending more than £185 million on electric car chargers, public charging points remain expensive.

Anthony Brown, Minister for Technology and Decarbonisation, explained that the government has a plan to help accelerate the installation of electric vehicle charging points, “which we are working on and implementing”.

ZapMap The data details how 77,000 electric car drivers rely on the three-prong plug that comes with an electric car and allows them to charge their car at home, but only at a “painfully slow” speed.

Recently, the Connected Curb home charger rolled out a total of 6,000 charging points to provide drivers with a cheaper alternative.

Ben Butcher-West, chief digital officer at Connected Kerb, said: “Public smart charging is the catalyst we need to create a fairer, greener and cheaper charging network.

“We know that less than two-thirds of people in the UK don’t have access to a home charger, which is why we’re committed to leveling the playing field between those who can access smart charging and those who don’t.”

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Connected Curb plans to unveil an additional 4,000 charging points this year to boost its network of electric vehicle chargers in the UK.

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