Electric car costs soar as trip from London to Cornwall costs £71 more than by petrol car

By Oli Smith, News Reporter

Prices astatine roadside chargers crossed the UK person soared for EV drivers (Image: Getty)

The UK's  electrical conveyance (EV) gyration appears to person stalled arsenic the outgo of the caller greenish exertion mounts. Prices astatine roadside chargers crossed the UK person soared for EV drivers, leaving them with a hefty bill.

New investigation has recovered that moving an electrical car is astir doubly arsenic costly arsenic driving a petrol oregon diesel car. According to Zapmap, which maps retired EV charging stations, EVs would outgo astir doubly arsenic overmuch to tally arsenic petrol oregon diesel cars for a instrumentality travel from London to Cornwall.

The information shows that a travel from London to Penzance and backmost again would outgo £148 utilizing accelerated chargers - compared to conscionable £77 for diesel cars, and £89 for petrol cars.

Driving an electrical car tin outgo much than 24p per mile, compared to 12.5p per mile for diesel vehicles and 14.5 per mile for petrol cars, according to calculations from The Times.

Even those that opt for the overmuch slower nationalist chargers wage much per mile than petrol and diesel astatine 16.4p per mile.

Driving an electrical car tin outgo much than 24p per mile compared to 12.5p per mile for diesel cars (Image: Getty)

While prices astatine accelerated roadside chargers person accrued 5 percent successful the past year, determination has besides been a autumn successful the terms of oil, starring to the nightmare script for the EV manufacture successful the UK.

This comes arsenic the fig of Britons buying electrical cars has besides slowed down successful caller months.

The proportionality of EVs among caller registered cars is conscionable 17.2 percent since the opening of the twelvemonth - marking a flimsy alteration from the 18.7 percent highest successful the 2nd fractional of 2022.

Mike Hawes, the main enforcement of the Society of Motor Manufacturers, told The Times: “It’s pugnacious retired there. Levels of request are much, overmuch softer."

he fig of Britons buying electrical cars has besides slowed down successful caller months (Image: Getty)

Thom Groot, laminitis of the Electric Car Scheme, said the UK had to support "stimulating request with incentives".

There is unit from the EV manufacture for the Government to chopped VAT connected electrical car income oregon exempt electrical cars from a caller 'luxury car supplement'.

The supplement would enforce a higher complaint of roadworthy taxation connected cars that outgo much than £40,000, affecting two-thirds of electrical cars. Despite the soaring costs, the roll-out of much charging stations person continued crossed the country.

As of August 2024, determination are 13,444 accelerated oregon ultra-rapid charging devices, crossed 5,681 charging locations successful the UK.