Electric Vehicle Charging Costs - Could be truly shocking in the future - here's why....

The shocking cost of future electric vehicle  charging -

That might include yours....

With electric vehicles in the UK currently zero-rated for road excise duty, governments will need to recoup lost taxation - through the electric 'fuel' is likely the big choice....

Feel the jolt in your wallet? What will future charging costs look like? 

They won't be cheap and you are likely to end up getting hit by future high costs

Currently, you may be enjoying 'acceptable level' tariffs for charging your electric vehicle that seem cheap now, but that could all be set to change.

Although you can charge a vehicle at home, or on a public charger, the actual cost can be as high as the equivalent liquid Petrol or Diesel fuel alternative to fill the fuel tank up. Surprised? 

Well, there's more to be wary of and you should heed this warning.

Electric vehicles currently enjoy zero road charge costs  - that is, unlike liquid fuelled vehicles using Petrol or Diesel in the UK, they don't get charged duty on the fuel when purchased and/or in some cases a vehicle excise duty charge when the vehicle is used on the road or if they emit over a certain CO2 level. So far so good for the EV's

Vehicle Excise duty as currently levied does not take into account your vehicle usage, it is solely based on engine size and CO2 output - EV's may in future be taxed on their motor wattage. So a 2 seater EV would be cheaper than a 4 seater EV  or SUV-EV to use.

All well and good so far.

I see the future of electric vehicles as great for city use, in short journeys and local travel under 100 miles a day. However, the great uplift in electricity capacity to feed this need for the power to motivate these vehicles will have to be met with more certainty than relying on 'green' energy - did you know that Diesel generators back up 'Green' when 'Green' fails?  Someone will have to pay for the future EV charge-related uplift and Mr or MRS EV Owner, that's going to be you.

How governments may then make you pay...

Yes, there's no such thing as a free lunch and no free rides either. It is a case of have EV now and pay later.

With a massive shortfall in taxable duty with a shift to electric vehicles, you as an EV owner will face one issue - The charging point's costs. Because that is an unavoidable point where you can be taxed.

Likely, these are already 'smart' charging units and have the capacity wired into be updatable by remote methods. Overnight, these could be reset to 'tax' the EV charge you use by any amount that those in control choose to apply. 

So, today's charge of your EV might cost you £30 to charge, tomorrow it could be £100 and there is nothing you can do about it. Except pay if you want to travel by EV.

Having ditched your fossil fuelled vehicle for a 'green' one, you might be looking a bit sour around the chops when your future electricity bill shows how much your EV charges are now costing even if you only charge at home and not out at a public charging point. 

Motorway service areas often have costlier road fuels than otherwise, on motorways, your EV is a captive audience and these establishments need to turn a profit, otherwise they go out of business. 

If you run out of charge, your EV will need a full-suspended recovery - your EV cannot be towed except perhaps only onto the recovery truck and recovery companies will soon realise this and hit you with higher recovery charges in this situation.

Rather than go down the road of unpopular road pricing, my prediction is that governments will  get their pound of flesh another way and tax you at the charging point wherever that occurs - be it at your home or at a public facility. Smart charging with Smart pricing will leave you smarting.

Once you are 'converted' to Green EV's you are a prisoner of the system.

Don't say you haven't been warned. Someone has likely already reached this same conclusion as me on how to make your EV pay like a fossil fuel car does. 

They are just playing the waiting game until there is a large enough EV ownership and no means of escape before applying these cost charges. Then see if I am right.

 

Has Porsche and Siemens synthetic Petrol just blown the electric battery vehicle myth out of the water ?

 

The work of Porsche and Siemens looked to have paid off -

 Is the writing now on the wall for the Electric vehicle?

Breaking news - Porsche and Siemens now have seemingly cracked the synthetic Petrol alternative and are about to set up a reining plant for their new synthetic fuels so is this development going to kill off the battery powered vehicle offerings?

Also, Pay Per Mile driving on Electric cars will come in and no one knows how much per mile will be taken from Drivers - as governments seek to recoup the 80% fuel duty money lost on Petrol and Diesel sales. Will the electric car drivers look so smug then? Driving could really cost them.

The recent introduction of the 'not very Green' E10 Ethanol blended Petrol is somewhat farcical - that is this fuel generates a carbon footprint, it needs more fuel to do the job of what it replaced, it damages some vehicle fuel systems and has a limited shelf life and will need disposal when it goes stale (which is quite quickly) a fact that has not been thought out - and that is just for starters.

The 'race to the bottom' of car makers to pander to the Eco warriors and their plan to rid us of internal combustion engines when they are at the most efficient they have ever been, is frankly crazy. Then to rape the planet of rare earth, finite materials to fulfil their warped battery car ideology? You couldn't make it up.

We are being asked to as an alternative to old Dinosaur derived fuels to rip up the Earth they care so much about to extract a finite palate of minerals to satisfy these smug individuals and their egos. F*ck the planet, in this case - so long as it puffs up the egos of the smug lefties. Oh and what about the child labour used to mine the Cobalt for electric car batteries?

Where is the extra electricity to come from to power these battery devices? Good question. The power we get at the end of power lines these days is noticeably down - domestic cooking shows that.

Fuel Stations run on low margins of profit from Petrol and Diesel sales - it is just that these stations sell a lot of fuel which keeps them in business. Have a car sitting on a charger for 2 hours and you could have sold a lot of liquid fuel in that time. Simple. As the Meerkat says. This means we could see many petrol stations close on profit grounds.

This new fuel

The Porsche Siemens fuel is derived from Methanol and if this can run satisfactorily in a Porsche then hopefully it will be safe in other cars including classic cars which are at risk from this awful E10 compound and shelf serving green lobby. The stupid argument about banning the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles is because they use fossil fuels. 

If you fuel these same vehicles with Porsche's fuel, it is still going to produce some CO2, but the difference is that the fuel isn't made from old Dinosaurs extracted from the ground - that seems to be the big bugbear for the Eco Warriors. 

These smug self-serving Eco Warriors have not yet realised that China now has control over the majority of the minerals on this planet needed to make the green revolution happen - which have to come out of the ground and it is free to charge what it likes when the stupid idiots have taken the viable alternative away -  that is stopped the production and sale of ICE cars. So why don't these green guardians not take their climate protests to China? That;s were the real problems are.

We have alternatives to help reduce emissions - firstly to commute less and work remotely more at home and other sites if that suits people, secondly to cull most luxury tourist aviation. We have had free energy available since 1954 but because we are an oil based world, it has been supressed.

An airline taking off and attaining altitude expels in that few minutes the same volume of CO2 that a family car does in 10 years of average mileage - around 70,000 miles of driving. Multiply the Heathrow daily output of aircraft movements by that metric and that is a lot of the world we could help to save by not flying most 'luxury' airline routes.

The bottom  line in reality is we have to reduce the world population because we are running out of world. Shortages projected in the 1980's to impact 'anytime now' are now starting to bite, as our population has doubled in size since 1965.

The electric vehicle scenario brings a ton of problems that could be avoided. People are jumping on this trendy bandwagon which is a race to the bottom and the wheel might well come off it. There are a lot of unknowns about the future of battery vehicles which are in their infancy and may not deliver what is expected, then what?

Synthetic fuels are the future and fuels like E10 are not. Electric is not the future either as 1 in 5 Californians are rejecting electric cars and going back to gasoline powered cars as the electric cars don't have the range and take too long to charge.

You have to ask yourself who is getting rich by al this stuff? They say follow the money and that's where you need to look to see where the vested interests reside.