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Charge at home for free from Solar, have used IONITY and Tesla subscriptions for longer trips UK and across Europe and will again later this year. Currently in south west Ireland from Liverpool area. Only 2 quick stops Tesla Anglesey 10 minutes and IONITY Cashel 10 minutes arrived at holiday cottage with 7% and free charging via granny charger (agreed with owner) while we are here and 100% battery for next leg to Northern Ireland, 400 miles for £18 so far.

Barrie Crampton thanks you for this.He 's off to charge his EV up.

Nice thing about the Tesla chargers - 20p/kWh at night. That's basically the same price as home charging on Economy 7 here in N. Ireland. Also, Tesla Belfast just opened up their chargers to non-Tesla, so there's 3 site here in NI - Boucher Rd, Sprucefield and Moygashel.

Mg5 owner here, pre face-lift. Unfortunately I need a costly software update to use the Tesla chargers.

Excellent video and tip. Am planning my first long journey - Manchester to Southampton for cruise holiday in Frontera 44KWh and using route planners was saying 2 or 3 stops. Now looked at Tesla superchargers - can easily do this on 2 stops with ease and paying less than the 89p max on service station chargers.

These comments are so helpful, thank you all, I just hired a petrol car for my last road trip. I couldn't be bothered with the faff. Seems like it wouldn't be that difficult 😊

Last year we picked up the MiL from the south coast of England in our Model Y, recharged overnight at home in the Midlands and booked a B&B near the Tesla Supercharger in Gretna Green. Where we charged whilst we were having dinner in the retail park. The car finished charging before we finished dinner, so I moved it before we got any standing charges. Next day on to Perth and we stayed out of town, about 5 miles from the Supercharger. We spent a week there and topped up the charge when necessary. Then on to Inverness, again with a Supercharger close by and topping up when necessary. On the way home, started with a full charge, topped up in Newcastle and Grantham when we needed comfort breaks. We didn't stop any longer than the comfort break. Recharge overnight at home and then a round trip to the south coast to take the MiL home. About 2,500 miles in 2 weeks, no problem at all. If people that worried about putting money into the hands of Musk that they're willing to pay over the odds, that's up to them. But before people shout about how bad Musk is, go and have a look at the leaders of other car companies and the human rights situation in China where all these cheap cars are coming from.

If you take a subscription through electroverse for Arnold Clark it takes it down to 39p per kilowatt

You don’t always need the Tesla App. I was at a V4 Tesla Charger not with our Tesla and a new owner of a non-Tesla asked for help charging. I anticipated they were going to have to download the App and register before they could begin. No, they noticed the contactless display, tapped their watch and off started charging at the public rate.

There are many Tesla superchargers where off-peak rates (£0.22/kWh to members) are available in the morning before 8 or 9am or after 9pm or 10pm. Its well worth popping out in the evening to charge up if there's on locally. It's cheaper than my home leccy (peak rate).

If granny charging our e-Niro is not enough before a longer road trip the next day, our local Asda has a whole set of be.ev chargers for 39p/kwh after 7pm. Great for a top up while doing a bit of shopping. Plus the be.ev network is now much bigger after they acquired mer chargers.

Just spent a week outside Skipton, and we brought the weather with us. You’re welcome.

I can't quite imagine telling my family that we can't stop at the services for a much needed wee but must find some other place to charge. Or worse still, yes, we stop but we don't charge and then have to go elsewhere and wait while we charge. I use petrol stations at services when on a long journey for exactly that convenience, we do it infrequently enough that the extra cost is not really an issue (and we fill up locally at the start of the journey anyway). When I finally do get an EV I am certain that won't be changing, fill/charge when you stop not stop to fill/charge.

I did exactly this ! As someone on the Hyundai Kona group on Facebook mentioned that if you are going to use more the 50kw then subscribe to Tesla for 1 month and once you've used 50kw the £9.99 has been coverd. At the start of may we was going up to Edinburgh for a few days so the round trip from Boston was around 750 miles so on the way up I used Washington services north and managed to get 20 minutes at the lowest rate then another 20 minutes at the top rate which I think was 44p then I topped up again at purdey lodge on the A1 while up there I put a small charge in at a eyev charger at 56p p/KW the journey back I used Washington services south and then a quick stop at Tesla Lincoln afterwards I worked out the total cost including topping back up to 100% at home and the £9.99 subscription against what my previous car (Honda insight hybrid) would of cost in petrol and it would of been £17 more and that was being generous with the mpg as it wasn't great when used on motorway and dual carriageway

Couldn’t agree more. I’ve not paid anything over the odds like that since I traded the Leaf in. Was chained to limited Chademo prices. So to save money I justified a chunky big IONIQ 5 😅 Did 410 miles yesterday up to Inverness & Elgin and back home. No probs, bloody long and had to stop more pressing to pee. Paid £33.88 for all that, £28.94 rapid charging to top up enough to get back home and £4.94 to cover the cost of filling the battery back up as I’d left full. Most expensive station was 65p Pogo. Perth SUC was a lifesaver, the CPS ones there are Crap! dead slow and it was late. Realised it was 10.01pm so moved 40ft & got 29p in the off peak, no comparison really.

There are still significant gaps in public charging infrastructure. Have a look at Hawick, in the Scottish Borders and see what you think about what choice I might have. Also Charge Place Scotland is disbanding and their chargers are migrating into other networks but, so far, this has resulted in increased prices as far as around here is concerned. I can not charge at home, but would like an EV (Fiat 500e to replace my Fiat 500 1.2Ltr), but can not see it as really viable. Also, the reliability of the local chargers has not been great as my occasional use of ZapMap seems to show.

"According to the Daily Mail" ...and that's all you need to know

One of the problems in using Tesla superchargers if you don’t have a Tesla is the length of the cable. I can only use V4 chargers. Is there any way I can find which version the site has before visiting? The Tesla site doesn’t give this information.

I drive an EV and have had a terrible change in circumstances by which my commute is 120 miles round trip a day. The Tesla supercharging network has been a life saver as I cannot charge at home. I pay the membership and get between 10-15p per kWh off what the non-members pay. Because I use the network so much, it’s well worth having the membership to me. Some Tesla destination chargers i’ve found are also free to use completely if you don’t mind sitting around for longer (my car charges at 50kw rapid or 22kw AC)

I recently bought my first EV and am in need of using public chargers until I can get something installed at home (building layout means I can't even get the granny charger connected without using an extension cable). As such, I surveyed the chargers near me (Tesla nearest charger is 15 miles or 35 minutes away so not realistic) and it came down to a choice of Ionity with full membership (flat £10.50 plus 48p per KWh) or Arnold Clark (55p per KWh) for the best value. Both are between 3 and 4 miles away but in opposite directions. I chose Ionity as their wider network also suits other areas I may visit. I calculated that to be worthwhile for the month I only need to charge 42KWh (146 miles using the 3.5m/KWh average the car had before i got it) for it to be cheaper than the PAYG option. My average monthly mileage is more like 750 miles so it's a no-brainer. I also calculated that with my average mileage, my previous petrol car would need to achieve around 60mpg as an average to match the fuel cost (including the sub) of the new car. When it was younger, that car could hit 60mpg on a good run in summer but by the time I traded it I was only averaging 40mpg which means even now without home charging, fuel is costing me around 65% of what it used to cost me in petrol (equivalent to petrol dropping to £1 per litre). Once I get home charging organised (probably through Smart home charge as sponsors of the video), that will change to an equivalent 350mpg or less than 20p per litre