Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Electric car chargers
Does anyone know the cost of the council chargers on the Ladder please. I’m struggling to find details on Haringey’s website.
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Permalink Reply by Ruben on
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If you sign up as a resident (£4 a month), it's 46p/kWh (cheapest tariff). For context, that's twice the cost of charging at home on standard tariff (slightly over).
https://www.sourcelondon.net/offers/resident
If you happen to incur "idle fees", your eyes start tearing up. They are most unreasonable, especially when compared with other providers. This happened to me because my car entered "battery maintenance mode" and a short charge (3 or 4 kWh) topped £9. That's when I stopped using them.
The current cost of idle fees, I am struggling to find but they are between 4-6p per minute (
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Just to give some context, an average electric car will use 30-35 kWh to travel 100 miles link (my personal experience is worse, especially when cold and even worse with the heating on, when it can be as bad as 50)
That works out an optimistic estimate of roughly £14-16
A petrol car with an unremarkable consumption of 35-40 mpg, at £1.45 average price per litre, will work out at £16-18. Hardly an incentive to change, when the cost of electric cars are easily £5-10k more expensive than comparable combustion engine ones.
Also for context, of the average £17 cost of petrol, almost £6 are fuel duty. I presume that as EV adoption increases, we will need to cover that tax revenue somehow and I doubt that the general public will be very happy covering that shortfall via income tax. So it will be shaped into some other form of "car tax".
Haringey partnered with Source London because they covered the cost of infrastructure for fitting the charging points, whereas other competitors (lampost, etc.) were asking the council for a contribution (this was communicated to me personally by email, upon complain for low-value proposition for the consumer given selected partner).
I think that Haringey should probably be making more of an effort in supporting residents with options to charge from home when you have no driveways. There are many properties that could charge cars safely by running cables under selected conduits (some look like a carpet, they are essentially flat) or with charge gullys, which are already in use by some councils. Even charge poles/arms. Instead the approach is to say no.
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