Dolphin Surf with no home charger - Advice Welcome

Have you checked if there is public dc fast charging available at shopping malls or other places where you spend at least 40 minutes once a week? If so you could charge there. You only need to check what kWh would cost you. I am also unable to charge at home but i can fast charge at a local store.

It's not worth it in the UK if you can't charge at home, public charging costs wipe out any savings by going electric

A lot of the faster chargers run at 50p to 70p per kwh. So for 150 miles you’d be paying £20 at super chargers, £10 or less if able to charge at home. I’d hope this changes once the electricity prices come down. In some other countries they pay 4 times LESS for fast charging (eg Australia 20p per kWh) Tbh it’s a competitively priced car, efficient, should last. But fuelling up might not be any cheaper and add an extra 30 mins to your journey every 150 miles ish

Don't keep it sitting too long (week or more) with 100% charge or very low charge. Otherwise than that, scout around which chargers along/around your daily route offer the most comparable price per mile driven and you're good to go. Comparing consumption of petrol cars in city driving...you should be a little bit better off if you try to keep your cost on public chargers < 0,6p/kWh. To not waste too much time\*...\*use DC as much as possible, minimum 50kW chargers. But then again that depends of where you are and what are you doing, maybe sometimes you can get away with lower power, if you're shopping. But, if your main intention is to just recharge the car, DC and top up as quickly as possible. It really is no problem and not a big adjustment of a lifestyle, if there's a lot of public chargers around your area. Be bold and go for it! It's a nice car and driving electric beats driving an ICE any time.

My wife paid 83p/kwh last night at a servo.... you ABSOLUTELY need a home charger or its pointless.

So I have a BYD surf. At home it charges for around £3 a full charge, if you take it a public 7kwh charger it’ll be around £30. If you can take it too a charger with off peak charging (Tesla super charger) you can half that price but it means charging overnight somewhere. Since the car is only £200 a month you can make a saving in a petrol car but only if you unconvinced yourself. Get Zapmap and find the cheapest chargers that are near your home or work. You could also sign up to Electroverse (if you’re on octopus) and get cheaper rates (it adds the cost to your monthly bills). In the summer it’s going to get you near the 200 miles range advertised but in the winter you’re probably talking 120-150. I’ve also found that if your journey is a constant 70mph speed it’s going to drain much faster, I found that if I stick to 30/50 mph roads it gets much closer to the 200 range, half that on faster roads

Fueling a petrol car is straightforward,you're near stations every day on almost every journey,takes 5/10 minutes. If you don't have home or workplace EV charging,or a nearby slow public charger you could walk to, you have to plan trips to chargers that'll take at best 30 minutes to several hours depending on charger output. It might work for charging access alone if supermarkets or businesses have chargers you could use regularly, but public charging rates are multiples of what you'd pay at home,to say nothing of savings from off peak rates. I had to wait a couple of months to get my home charger installed, It was doable to charge while shopping in the meantime,but it wasn't that convenient.

Unfortunately in the UK, an electric car is only cheaper if you can charge at home or at work as charging at services and public chargers in general cost more than petrol costs.

Do you know anyone with a home charger? I don’t have the facility for a charger at home, but leave my up to my sisters on a Friday night and they charge it for me. She sends me a bill each month! About 18 quid.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I really appreciate them 😊

Holy shit. In South Australia it's between (in GBP) 0.15-0.40p /kWh. Maybe for an absolute ultimate fast charger you'd be pushing 0.50p

NOP - Don't do it unless you can charge at home.

Thanks. Yes several fast charge and slow charge stations all around and within walkable distance if I need to use a slower one

https://youtu.be/OKZ5AFn6Bw0?si=3aDhMMGKPZt6Yuxq

Interesting, thanks I will give it a look 😊

I'm building an undersea cable to your house as we speak.  Would you mind sharing some electrons at Mates Rates?

You can have all my spare electrons. We get no solar rebate these days so I'd rather that go to a worthy cause 😂

Only 15 000 km left to reach you. Keep the tea warm! I'll be there soon!

If you have access to a standard power point then you'll probably get by. I don't have a charger installed yet and have been using the slow charger and it's worked for me for 6 months so far. You'll get around 10% a night, or around 40-50km

I can't charge at home but get free public charging credit with Octopus EV which should pretty much cover my milage over the lease term. My only issue so far is despite having dozens of on street chargers near me, many are blocked by ICE cars parking there as there are no restrictions, which is a massive  oversight on the council's part as they could be making money implementing and enforcing EV bays. The other thing is the price of electricity (80p+) on motorways, but this impacts everyone, so presumably those who say EV are pointless without a home charger never do a round trip longer than their range, or take the 3 pin plug to charge at their friend's houses