
Electric car charging fees to be introduced after council bill more than £215k
An overstay fee of £1 per minute, charged once a driver is over 15 minutes late returning to their car, is also proposed.
But more or less annoying than the charge-points being blocked for hours on end by greedy driveway owners?it is a further cost that's probably already quite annoying to non-driveway owners
Touche. I'd probably say just as annoying!But more or less annoying than the charge-points being blocked for hours on end by greedy driveway owners?
£200,000 sounds like a low price to pay for cleaner air in Hope Street![]()
Electric car charging fees to be introduced after council bill more than £215k
An overstay fee of £1 per minute, charged once a driver is over 15 minutes late returning to their car, is also proposed.www.glasgowlive.co.uk
EV drivers are of course entitled to freebies thats their God given right.Paying for charging & Parking seems stupid though so i hope that parking fees are waived while charging.
I think having to park somewhere you didn't really want to park, in order to get a charge, is a different case though. You're already paying a higher kWh price than people with driveways.EV drivers are of course entitled to freebies thats their God given right.
The 50 Kw Genie-point at St Erth station suffers from that very thing in the height of the tourist season.If EV's were parking fee exempt, you can be sure some tight ass will park his non EV in a bay to save on the parking fee.
No, you wouldn't but I guess it was necessary to kick start EVs. Also, certainly in my region, Council EVs, and there is a lot of them, were very heavy users of the free ChargePoints, often being worst at leaving them on rapids/fast chargers all weekend.You wouldn't expect councils to pay for your Petrol or Diesel and still at a reasonable price 0.20p/KW for a rapid charge
And then get clamped for it and fined.If EV's were parking fee exempt, you can be sure some tight ass will park his non EV in a bay to save on the parking fee.
or, uplifted to a compound with £150 release fee so the bay is available to EV owners.And then get clamped for it and fined.
Given the figured shared, it looks like the programme cost the council £0.47/kWh over the last year, of which, £0.14/kWh for the actual electricity. But excludes any capital or installation costs.You wouldn't expect councils to pay for your Petrol or Diesel and still at a reasonable price 0.20p/KW for a rapid charge
Much the same as taxpayers of course paying their Diesel/Petrol bills for council vehicles.Now that the ChargePoints are no longer free many public chargers have been removed and replaced with Council only chargers and I suppose we are paying for their fuel bill.
This also means more charger availability for someone needing a charge, and the overstay penalty is also a big help in this respect.It may also be counter productive....
Near where I live, there is a Pod Point that WAS completely free. As you can imagine, very popular with a lot of electric cars - in March it changed and it’s now 30p per kWh - in the last 2 months I haven’t seen one single car use it......
Be interesting to see what happens to useage now they charge for it.