EV Charging with no driveway

This thread IS mostly people who don't have an EV.

Yeah doesn't mention "charging drivers for road use by distance" at all.

It's always so easy to spot the people who are absolutely desperate to badmouth EVs

especially for people who mostly use public charging as those are every bit as expensive as using petrol/diesel

As someone who entirely uses public charging - no, it is absolutely not every bit as expensive as using petrol/diesel

It was a simple opinion. I think most people here will find kerbside charging a complete pita. Especially with high mileage.

The exception to that is someone who has the patience and use patterns to be work around public chargers and manage that. If you can do that now you'll manage a kerbside charging no problem.

Nothing stopping anyone from buying or leasing an EV and trying it for a year or two.

As I said before, I have a Countryman U25 with 22kW AC charging, which means I can generally get at most 54c/kWh (the eCars price) for the vast majority of my public charging.

If I wanted to, I could get an ePower subscription (as there are a few 22kW ePower chargers near me) and that would be down to 47c/kWh.

Or when I'm up north there are options like Weev which are a wee bit cheaper.

Worst case scenario would be Blink's network, which is quite widespread in car parks in the city and in Belfast, but is 65c/kWh.

That's all obviously higher than the rate I could get with a home charger, but as @Red Silurian points out, it's still below the cost of running a diesel or a petrol engine.

Now, I didn't buy an EV because I cared about it being cheaper to run, I personally was far more interested in (a) the environmental impact and (b) EVs being just magnitudes more pleasurable to drive. But I do think the running costs still work out for the positive.

Alternatively one could say - "not even discussed by government yet" or "will take a long time to figure out" etc

Usually People say Tesla or Ionity can be among the cheapest when travelling with a subscription. I've no idea. I just use the one that's most convenient and likely to be free. Like you I only public charge about 5% of the time.

If you're using chargers local to you it's going to depend what's nearest where you live. When I didn't l have a home charger for me that was the local AC ESB at the train station or if I didn't want to wait hours at 7kW. Then the High speed DC charger at the local shopping center. Other times I'm at a match or something I'll just use the one that's near.

Kerb side charging you're going to be fighting for that space nearest your cable. Or where the pole is. I noted when in the UK the lamppost chargers sometimes had a dedicated space. Often they didn't though. I thought that would be a pita.