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If we look at someone that isn’t plucking numbers out of thin air, the RAC reckon around 65% of UK households have access to off-street parking. https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/cars-parked-23-hours-a-day Though, I do agree that the disparity between private and public charging is utterly ludicrous and definitely disadvantages a large proportion of the population. Prior to the recent energy price hikes you could find “fast” chargers for around the price of standard household electricity (though not the off-peak rates) so it wasn’t too polarising, however these days it’s all gone silly with even 7kW chargers costing considerably more than that available at home.

Why is it that people always compare the costs of charging at motorway services to filling up a diesel at bargain basement supermarket forecourts? Charging at home costs me 7.5p/kWh, which works out to around 2p/mile. Even with the most efficient diesels being fuelled up at supermarket forecourts, you’re looking at around no less than 10p/mile. This doesn’t detract from the fact many rapid chargers are ludicrously expensive at around 80p/kWh. Fortunately, the Tesla superchargers average around 36p/kWh, which is far more palatable. As to how can it be that a particular trip may be more expensive in a diesel as compared to an EV? That may have something to do with all the subsidies the fossil fuel companies receive, whilst public charging receives no equivalent subsidies and has a 20% VAT rate attached to it.