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WHO is paying for Electric Charge on Cars

(15 Posts)
Bea65 Tue 21-Sept-21 18:33:43

Keep hearing about "We should buy electric cars for the sake of environment" but who is paying for the charges @public charging stations? Just wondered if this impacts on the drain of electricity and who is paying for this ??tax payers??

MayBeMaw Tue 21-Sept-21 18:38:48

Don’t you pay to charge your car?

DiscoGran Tue 21-Sept-21 19:01:43

The person who is charging their car, of course.

Kim19 Tue 21-Sept-21 19:03:19

Think some places are 'free' at the moment.

DiscoGran Tue 21-Sept-21 19:06:25

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

Oopsadaisy1 Tue 21-Sept-21 19:08:07

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

DiscoGran Tue 21-Sept-21 19:08:45

Mind you, not going anywhere much these days?

Ilovecheese Tue 21-Sept-21 19:09:14

Ours take credit cards.

Blossoming Tue 21-Sept-21 19:17:40

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

muse Tue 21-Sept-21 19:20:24

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.

Katie59 Tue 21-Sept-21 21:11:17

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

Margiknot Tue 21-Sept-21 22:27:22

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.

Katie59 Wed 22-Sept-21 07:27:10

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

JaneJudge Wed 22-Sept-21 07:43:11

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

Bea65 Wed 22-Sept-21 11:09:03

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..