Random EV Thoughts 2 - The Jimnying

Tesla and Ionity have raised their by a few cents. Cant speak for the others as I dont use them regularly.

If energy input prices stay high, we will eventually see charging prices rise in line with electricity wholesale costs. Whilst this may lag behind fuel prices.

Fuel prices are much more sensitive to supply shocks as we are currently seeing. Conversely though, as we have seen in the last few years when prices do eventually fall, electricity prices can take far longer to drop also.

Yes with Ionity

As you do most of the charging at home, occasional sessions at the public networks don't matter much. Annoying to see the high prices, but an extra cost of say the price of a litre of diesel per charge won't really matter in the greater scheme of things.

One of the work fleet (6 years ago) of 40kW had a radio that never worked so, yes, but I've no fix for you unfortunately.

It also drained the 12V battery like mad (6 years ago, the cars weren't getting driven very much…) compared to the rest come to think of it.

The price increases of the charging networks will never quite match the increases that diesel/petrol sees for a number of reasons, but I think the biggest is that the electricity supply network has close to zero reliance on oil.

That doesn't insulate electricity prices entirely for various reasons - some of our electric comes from abroad where oil is a factor, there's factors of supply/demand, electric companies are out to make money so they'll use any excuse to raise prices, etc etc.

I'm fairness it's a decently written article. Using the eUp might seem odd but it has all the same pros and cons as any other BEV. He overpaid for it and has massive depreciation on it. Kinda skips past that. That really nulls any fuel saving. But he was unlucky with the timing when he bought. But that's not true today when we have cheaper new and used BEVs.

I like the idea of a small light BEV. It's all many people need.

He skips past the depreciation as he bought it on PCP and intends handing it back. He’s covered it previously on a recent podcast with Mark Noble.