WHO is paying for Electric Charge on Cars

Don’t you pay to charge your car?

The person who is charging their car, of course.

Think some places are 'free' at the moment.

Not seen any free ones in my area, if only. ?

You put your Credit card in our Local charging points, although they aren’t very ‘local’.

Mind you, not going anywhere much these days?

Ours take credit cards.

I believe the driver pays, the charging points are not free. We have a self charging car.

It's free at some supermarkets. Tesco, for instance, has over 600 chargers across 300 locations, and provides free charging on its fast 7/22kW chargers, whilst customers need to pay on the rapid charge points.

There are quite a few 7 kw chargers at supermarkets, hotels etc they pay to encourage you to use them, there are also some 50’KW rapid chargers in the North East council subsidized to encourage EVs.
Otherwise you pay from 5p per KW off peak at home up to 50p at enroute chargers

The charge user pays via either a membership charging card (there are unfortunately several different cards - so you can usually only charge from units run by the company cards you pay into) or the appropriate app for the provider. Drivers going out of their usual area will need more membership cards and more apps, as there is little standardisation of charge companies. Occasionally , charging points are free to the user- presumably to encourage electric car use, but this is very unusual. The supermarket chargers here are certainly not free to the user- the correct charging card is required for payment.

Increasingly chargers are accepting contactless credit cards for payment, this will simplify payment eliminating multiple charge cards and become the norm.

I thought the world health organisation was paying when I read the title

We've a public one in the village where there are 2 spaces and only see a BT van parked there most days and still wondering if this is a public charging station so still unclear and there is no one about to ask...so thanks for responses and yes have seen the supermarket ones..