Ionity charging network

Another dig at the motorist. I assume this will also hit domestic electric bills and hence home charging ?

Call it what you like but it’s just another subtle way to discourage drivers to move to electric cars. It should be extended as it was brought in to offset the sudden increase in electricity prices. Said prices are still high and show little sign of dropping.

I’m not insinuating anything. My opinion is that it is intentional, another way of taxing the motorist. Why do you think it’s not intentional ?

This is an Ionity charger thread and this vat rate increase came up in terms of increased prices. Yes it affects all electricity customers which I asked about in an earlier post. Let’s hope you’re right about it being extended but I’m not seeing much public outcry.

Yes it absolutely affects all electricity consumers. On this particular thread in the context of Ionity, this change also increases the cost of public charging. Ionity is already quite expensive to start with. Very little in it now compared to buying diesel. Its a small increase but it’s just a move in the wrong direction if you’re supposedly promoting the transition to EV’s.

From those of you with the Ionity app, how do you know how many chargers are free at each charging station? For example, if the app tells me 4/6 at one specific location, is this 4 chargers are free or 4 chargers are in use? Apologies for the basic question, I've just got my first EV and I'm still learning!

In theory it should also be felt very slightly by petrol drivers as the pumps use electricity to pump the petrol into the car, the tills, lights and credit card machines etc etc

To be fair to Ionity they reduced their prices (albeit from a very high base) when the VAT came down while others increased their prices. They have said their passport plans will increase by about 2-3c and their standard rate (which is ~64.5c ex-VAT) should go from 70c to 73c

It's not even obvious to a somewhat seasoned user, I almost always have to hit "select charger" when checking to remind myself if it's the free or in-use chargers they mean

Ionity Athlone is a sh!tshow. Theres been constant issues over the last few months, even with the new chargers. If 2 are out of action then it becomes congested any time of day.

How does Volkswagen’s we charge work at ionity ,do you get reduced rates?

I’ve the car set up for plug in and charge,it’s compatible

I use the annual subscription and it's still €0.44/kWh

Where are you seeing an increase?

It's 77c now in the app without a sub, electroverse is now 76c and the Tesla multipass is 72c. It was previously 69c through ionity

0.76c now 😢

It's all relative. Plenty of older diesels on the road that would be more expensive than an EV to operate per km until electricity went north of 1 euro per kw/h.

Not sure I quite get it.

There was a claim that public charging prices are more expensive than diesel.

It's relative though. If you're contemplating moving from an older diesel and jumping into your first EV you'll see savings even if the per kw/h rate was up around Eur1.00. Go back just a few short weeks and that might even have been Eur1.20. Exactly my use case a few years back btw, so I know this situation quite well.

Are we on the same page now?