How do you charge an electric car? Electrifying X Octopus Energy

[@grahamcastle8189]

Thank you Octopus, an energy supplier that is customer and environmentally focused. If you keep up an average of one hour free electricity a week I'll be getting over 1000 miles free travel on my wee Zoe.

[@geoffstockwell7002]

Excellent explanation 👌

[@Dunkelzeitgeist]

Excellent partnership! Love it

[@locknut5382]

A family member who is a dedicated driver of a fossil car told me recently that he would never buy an EV, because he didn't want to have to stand for an hour, or even for 20 minutes, while the car recharged, *D'oh!* - I simply told him that all you do is plug in, start the charge, and walk away. When you return, unplug it, replace the lead, and drive away. No waiting to pay. His next gripe was that someone would unplug the lead. So I asked him to pull the connector out of our charging socket. He couldn't do that, of course. 😁

[@nigelgarvey2046]

Having the charge port on the front means you /do/ have to reverse /out/ of a charging space or driveway, which intelligent drivers will normally want to avoid.

[@locknut5382]

I thought the same with our Zoe. But the supplied charging cable is plenty long enough to reach to the front when the recharger is at the back of the car. So leaving the bay is trivial, and safe.

[@dbobstoner]

What about this houses or flats who do not have access to a home power point? Many new houses don't have a driveway or garage. You can't charge with a cable dangling over a pavement. The Govt don't seem to realise this. Many supermarkets have yet to add EV chargers.

[@locknut5382]

​@@dbobstoner We've no off-road parking, and fall into that category. But it has been no problem for us. We recharge at 22 kW, 3-phase, for free, at our local supermarket, or we could pay 25p per kWh at their 50 kW CCS charger. The supermarket chain has branches throughout Great Britain, and others also have low cost chargers. With a ~250 mile Summer range for our Zöe, a supermarket is always reachable. We proved that by going on holiday to North Wales, from Lincolnshire, and not having to spend any money on electricity for the whole fortnight, recharging either from solar PV panels or supermarket chargers. That supermarket 25p per unit 50 kW charging would be lower cost, for the expected life of the car, than having a wall box fitted at our property, even if we could have one. I'll not bore you with the details, but I've done the Maths. Our cheapest option really is to use sensibly-priced public chargers. Also remember that anyone who is travelling long distances would be in the same position as someone with no home charging; they have to use public chargers.

[@dbobstoner]

@@locknut5382 appreciate your wisdom in this. Thank you.

[@locknut5382]

@@dbobstoner No worries. Thanks for raising the point. 🙂👍

[@steveknight878]

Why does the octopus image swim like a jellyfish, rather than like an octopus?

[@Gawadarport]

How to use an app(electric universe), know how to use pluse point

[@KoochiKoochi]

#ELECTROPUS I’m liking it!

[@caractacus22]

These high ohms chargers are very expensive

[@Adventures-and-More]

You charge an electric car by plugging it in

[@MrTesla219]

100 thumbs up

[@dazzassti]

Public charging is basically insane at 80p kWh. Unless they come down in price there’s NO way EVs are sustainable.

[@trevormurphy1627]

Very expensively with octopus. The worst option for EV drivers, look elsewhere people