EV charging map - filter by price

mapryan

Does anyone know of an EV charging map website that allows you to filter by price?

Thanks

QrizB

You mean something like https://www.petrolprices.com but for EV charging?

mapryan

Perhaps. Just seems odd that all the maps offer filters by charging type, speed, etc, but none by price. I appreciate it can be a little difficult as some have connection charges and some don't, but a straightforward file by price/kWh seems like something that would be really useful, especially when chargers even when they're almost right next to each other, and run by the same company can have wildly different prices

Spies

I don't believe such a map exists, but typically the cheapest rapid is IONITY when using the electroverse card at 66p/kWh

mapryan

Thanks @Spies

I'm not bothered by speed of charging. It's just odd situations like outside my house there are 2 X Shell Recharge Ubitricity lamppost chargers. One is 46p/kWh and the other is 24p/kWh. Zapmap knows this as when you click on them you can see the difference in the detail, but I bet so many people use the other one as they're not aware that identical chargers can (and do) have such different prices.

On-the-coast

Interesting. 

Of course if your lamppost pricing was on a map there would be a almost constant queue to use it at less than many people’s electricity rate!

Petriix

Seems like an obvious option for Electroverse because they know the live pricing for all partnered networks. For Zapmap and Plugshare it's more likely that they'd have out of date prices so not as reliable, but it should still be an option.

For now it's just a case of checking the various apps and tapping on all the chargers of interest to see the prices. Not ideal, like the public charging network in general. 

Reed_Richards

I can't see that electric cars will gain widespread acceptance until the price of charging them away from home falls.  You have to put up with the inconvenience of waiting much longer to refuel your electric car so the compensation should be that it is cheaper.  A good electric car might take you 4 miles per kWh.  A reasonable petrol car might get 50 miles to the gallon.  So if petrol is £1.40 per litre 100 miles would cost you £12.63.  Or at 60p per kWh 100 miles would cost you £15.  More expensive, so what's the point?  

Netexporter

Not effing up the planet, for a start.

Spies

I know this is working around the problem, but if you pay Elli £13.99 a month you get rapid charging at 44p/kwh on their partners, so after you've put 48kwh in you're saving money

EricMears

Reed_Richards said:

  More expensive, so what's the point?  

Only if a lot of your charging is done away from home.

If most charging is done at home, the occasional rapid charge won't make a huge difference to the average.  If you can't charge at home then maybe an EV wouldn't suit you.