£1 per kWh

[BillyWhizz]

Just got this email WOW

 

[andi51081]

 

[smokie]

I saw that. I assume there is a degree of them trying to pressure the govt to "do something" for them.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

The CEO explains his situation here:-



The TL;DR is that they have no idea what/when the government is doing to help businesses with energy costs.

 

[bmacrow]

Ouch! Problem is all the price cap stuff (except the 6 months of "equivalent help) doesnt apply to businesses, so while supply to home charge points are covered by price caps, public charge points are not. I fear we are going to see alot more of this over the next few months....

 

[Fishettibean]

This works out about 25p a mile if getting 4kw/m. Way more than petrol in some cases.

Think osprey has jumped the gun too soon and its going to hurt them. Even ionity havnt increased their once expensive price, yet.

 

[Gadget Geek]

I don't think I'll be doing any long journeys any time soon.

 

[bmacrow]

Honestly, its getting to the point where I need to re-evaluate whether I should be going EV right now. I dont have a VIN allocated yet and so Octopus arent going to charge me a cancellation.

Need to run some figures and decide if I should just throw in the towel and wait until energy prices have at least stabilised, by which point the supplier pinch will hopefully be better and I can look again.

 

[daverobbo]

View attachment 10912

wow
equates to around 25p per mile on that tariff

 

[bmacrow]

wow
equates to around 25p per mile on that tariff

Yup, and that basically the same as my cost per mile on petrol right now...

 

[pgh]

£1 per kWh, 3.8 miles/kWh = roughly 26p/mile
Petrol@£1.70/litre and 50 mpg = roughly 15p/mile

Makes you think!

 

[teepee]

Perhaps he's fed up waiting for info from the government and hopes others will follow and force government into issuing details of their "rescue plans"

 

[slmorgan42]

£1 per kWh, 3.8 miles/kWh = roughly 26p/mile
Petrol@£1.70/litre and 50 mpg = roughly 15p/mile

Makes you think!

Lol my car is a bit more hungry than that.
It’s diesel. @ 32 mpg ~£1.85 / l

But yeah £1 is crazy and I think as some else said they jumped the gun.

 

[BillyWhizz]

This works out about 25p a mile if getting 4kw/m. Way more than petrol in some cases.

Think osprey has jumped the gun too soon and its going to hurt them. Even ionity havnt increased their once expensive price, yet.

I agree it will hurt them

 

[andi51081]

It’s still £0.50p/kWh maximum through the Bonnet app on Osprey chargers though and less if you buy a refill but I imagine that will change real soon as Bonnet will not be able to sustain these losses.

 

[hmadsen]

Here in Denmark owners of Hybrid cars are running their cars solely on petrol now, "no one" is charging their hybrids, as electricity is equally expensive, which makes it a bad deal to run on batteries.

I paid a fee when i ordered directly from MG and signed a contract.

I wonder if it will be possible to get out of the contract if this continues, and if so, if i will be able to get my deposit back.

I recon that if i stay in the "queue" waiting for a car, i might be getting it a lot sooner, if people start cancelling their orders en-masse.

 

[BugEyed]

they have no idea what/when the government is doing to help businesses with energy costs.

Pretty accurate summation of the situation. The Government clearly hasn't a clue and has yet to get around to making this up as they go along. Frankly even when they do it'll change a few times and only be for 6 months.
Presumably Osprey don't have deep enough pockets to carry a loss for any length of time.

 

[BugEyed]

Here in Denmark owners of Hybrid cars are running their cars solely on petrol now, "no one" is charging their hybrids, as electricity is equally expensive, which makes it a bad deal to run on batteries.

In the UK it's only Rapid charging that's this expensive, home charging should be no more than 34p/kWh so still cheaper than petrol at £1.70/litre.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

In the UK it's only Rapid charging that's this expensive, home charging should be no more than 34p/kWh so still cheaper than petrol at £1.70/litre.

I'm even luckier than that. 7.5p/kWh @ home overnight & free @ work.

 

[Silver estate]

I'm even luckier than that. 7.5p/kWh @ home overnight & free @ work.

My standard is 21p kWh