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From TransportEvolved.com: As it promised a few weeks back, UK firm Chargemaster has just quietly unveiled details of how much it will charge electric
[See the full post at: Chargemaster Unveils Multiple UK Tariffs for Electric Car Charging]i think some of these fees are very high…
i would assume there will be a massive dip in the amount of usuage becuase of this. i know for sure that i will only charge when i have to, rather than as a habbit like i have done so previously.
I use Chargemaster points quite a bit locally at Waitrose etc. These are also SourceLondon, so I will simply use my SourceLondon card until that runs out in June this year. After that, I will probably not use these at all. For most trips I will be able to charge at home or will use the Ecotricity fast chargers.
They lost the plot. Far too expensive.
To compare, here is a little info on electric car charging tariffs in Denmark. We have only 2 electricity networks for charging EV’s. One of them (e-on) currently doesn’t support charging for the Zoe, so that leaves only one, which is a company called ‘Clever’. They have a decent network of 22kw chargers spread over most of the country. We currently have no 43Kw chargers in denmark. ‘Clever’ has a model with a monthly fee. You pay £11/ month. And the charging cost is £0,40/ Kwh. They also have a model wih no monthly fee, the charging cost is then £0,61/ Kwh. That means a theoretical full charge cost is £8,8 with the monthly fee model, and £ 13,42 with the ‘pay as you go’ model.
https://www.clever.dk/english/daymolton, that sounds pretty expensive. I guess we should be very grateful for the Ecotricity network of free 43kW chargers.
Thus far we haven’t actually used public charge points very much at all,so probably it will not make much difference to us. I suspect we will probably register for the £20 annual charge so that we are able to use the points if we absolutely need to. However we certainly will cease plugging in for a top up charge as we have been doing. We have registered with the Ecotricity network, but never seem to drive anywhere near where they are, so currently it appears the only charge points near our travels are, or will be, pricy to use. (Source London points also have announced they are likely to be charging after June, and I guess may charge similar amounts.)
Well having noticed that the recent e-mail from Chargemaster which outlines their new tariffs, mentioned that either option allowed free charging at points which were free, I contacted them to ask when their map would show which points these are. The response said that by the end of the following day, the map should have been updated to indicate this. I have allowed a few days to pass since then, but if you view the Live Map on the Chargemaster site and click on various points, you should see that some points now have prices indicated under the socket description. The good news is that, if one assumes they have completely updated the map by now, the free points outnumber the others! It seems from my experimenting, that those within a supermarket car park will remain free, whereas Little Chef points will cost you, as will some in NCP car parks. Some towns seem to have been a bit unlucky. If you live in Brighton for example, it seems that all the points in town will cost you, but you can wander slightly further afield and visit the Asda for free charging!
One assumes that you will still have to have subscribed to Chargemaster one way or another and that the payg app will not enable you to use the free points, for free! And of course, I am sure that they are at liberty to add charges to these points in the future, as they please. However, I suspect that for the foreseeable future, the supermarkets will be loath to allow charging points to cost their customers to use them, in case that is a disincentive to visit.
If that is correct, woodlee, that is a ray of light. It does make sense that this would be the case. The only Chargemaster/Polar charger I have used was in an Asda which did get some business from me as I charged the car. It would make very little sense for supermarkets to have expensive charging stations on their grounds, as you say. I was going to abandon the Polar network card I had, but I might consider keeping it now.
In fact I have had another e-mail from Chargemaster this evening, saying “the website is now showing the charges for every post as from 01/04/14. Click on the post and it will advise of the cost. If it states £0.00, then it’s free still.”
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