How much to live on

middlewife

Good luck, zapmap can do route planning for you, and show real time information. Always have a plan b charger in case plan a is unavailable and personally I charge when I'm down to 30%.

You have a lovely day for it which will help with range and not having to stand in the rain. I've done Reading to Falmouth several times around 230 miles and reading to Lincoln around 170 miles. Regularly did reading to Bristol when mum was alive.

If paying contactless, make a small purchase using your PIN so your card isn't blocked at the charger.

Good luck!

QrizB

Today however I need to do a relatively long journey. I shall update on any potential range anxiety later!

I'm a passenger with Mrs QrizB right now, approx 100 miles into a 240-mile trip in her 120-ish-mile range EV.

I expect we'll charge twice. No big deal. Even allowing for 60p/kWh public charging it'll still be half the overall cost of doing the same trip in my diesel.

Organgrinder

Well first half of journey complete. Lots of range left and amazingly when I move onto the new tariff it's working out at less than 2p a mile!

I'm a convert!

Pat38493

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81976770#Comment_81976770

I also recommend the Octopus Electroverse app - it works with or without CarPlay to find chargers that are currently available. Also, when there are plunge pricing days on Octopus Agile, they often announce discounts of up to 25% on public charging at some of the providers.

Another advantage is that if you have a compatible car you can set it up to instantly charge so that as soon as you plug your car in, it starts charging - no faff with apps etc (possibly this function only works with certain charge providers, but it worked for me the other day).

The only downside is that Gridserve is not part of it, so the chargers it finds are usually not at motorway service stations, but once you know how to use the app you can usually find chargers with only a minute or two of detour. Most of the time there is a Costa or some kind of fast food or pub at the chargers anyway.

The car technology has moved on a lot in the last few years - the other day I had reverse range anxiety whilst at the change stop! By the time we had visited the facilities and grabbed a snack and drink, the car was overcharged and I ended up on 50% when I reached home!