Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New EV parking charges WILL affect residents - more than doubling charging costs
Further to this thread, I have finally received a response from Cllr Cunningham (via Cllr Abela) regarding the proposal by Haringey Council to introduce new parking charges for users of EV charging bays in the borough - and she has confirmed that it WILL include local residents who will be required to pay the additional parking charges on top of their usual resident’s permit for the area, as well as the costs of charging (which are currently advertised by Total Energies as being inclusive of the cost of parking).
This will more than double the cost of a 5-hour charging session (a full charge for an average EV) - from £16.80 (based on the residents’ rate of 48p/kWh and a 7kW charging speed) to £34.95 (including 5 hours’ parking at £3.63 per hour). I’m sure for most this will make the cost of charging locally entirely unaffordable - driving them either to charge further afield (eg at petrol stations where the costs are higher albeit cheaper than what Haringey is planning) or to give up their electric cars entirely.
The consultation document was very unclear as to whether the is new charge would apply to residents - as such I believe making the consultation on this aspect unfair (and of course the visitor parking permit issues rightly took centre stage in the consultation anyway). However it is not clear that there is any recourse to further action at this point, leaving me and no doubt all EV owners locally in an impossible situation.
If anyone else feels concerned by this, I would urge you to email your local councillor and Ann Cunningham, Head of Highways and Parking (Ann.Cunningham@haringey.gov.uk) to raise your concerns and please share this information with others who might be interested, as it doesn’t seem to be widely known.
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Permalink Reply by Paul
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Lunacy. Can’t see the revenue going up for Total based on this. Just destroyed the business model…
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Permalink Reply by Rich
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Yea this is really stupid. I was actually in another borough recently, and they actually restricted there slow chargers to residents only (i.e you had to had a permit to use them).
Thanks for chasing this up and bringing to more wide spread attention
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I did some calculations here for a few different cars (that apparently are popular), Happy to add any others if people want (or I'll likely add some when I have time).
Basically you're completely right, this is no longer viable for total energies. In fact, I guess InstaVolt is better now, even on Peak.
(Also if anyone notices that my maths in wrong please let me know)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SVkLLU3nNBZzvOI1meVpQUpCYPI...
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Actually the sheet was unneeded. Basically 7kW chargers will be 100p/kWh, and 22kW chargers will be 65p/kWH.
Given you can get fast chargers at ~55p/kWH for off peak, memebership etc, I don't see anyone using the chargers....
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I’m trying to get on the list for a Kerbo Charge cross pavement channel which is being trialled by the council.
We have solar on the ladder and a house battery to run the house at night. Feels like we are trying to do the right thing but the council isn’t making it easy for anyone right now…
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