shikoku14
Established Member
Hi Folks,
It seems the site owners also are making money from this electric charging issue.
For example all the pod-point chargers at Tesco are free but the majority of the Lidl pod-point chargers are paid @25p per kWh.
I think this price difference has nothing to do with pod-point themselves and may be due to the site owner.
Most 7kWh PodPoints are free, just need activating in the app within 10 minutes, its the rapids that are 23p per kWh, which outside of a Polar membership are the cheapest paid for rapids in the country (unless you do a lot of charging in a month that Polar membership would be a false economy, certainly for anyone with home charging). As EV ownership is ramping up days of all the chargers being free are going the way of the Dodo.
As for the situation in Manchester, I think again a charge is necessary as some of the GMEV posts were being abused over the 4 hour limit, and for free parking, for example the one by my office (Exchange Quay in Salford) was constantly being used as free parking for United mid week games. The £20 annual fee for CYC in my opinion was set too low to disuaed that kind of behaviour, jump it to say £50 with the news scheme and it would still offer great value if you regularly charge in MCR and put off a lot of freeloaders. Pre-lockdown getting on that particular post needed you to arrive at the office before 7:30am, I must have counted a good 50-odd EVs and PHEVs in the carparks and local area who have used that particular charger (my desk overlooked the charger, so I was an EV twitcher, when bored of the office drone).