Home and away vehicle can travel on one charge) as their main frustration is also down, from 23% in 2021 to 17% this year. Even so, more than half (51%) of EV owners still claim to experience some degree of range anxiety. Almost three quarters (71%) of UK motorists feel more charging infrastructure is needed to meet growing demand. This is down slightly from the 2021 figure of 78%, but is still the highest level in Europe. In addition, 44% of UK motorists Just over half (56%) of electric vehicle (EV) owners in the UK are now charging at home (down from 78% in 2021), as vehicle owners take advantage of an expanding public and destination charging network. A recent survey of 13,699 adults in the UK, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and Norway commissioned by top vehicle charging brand CTEK highlights a significant shift towards out-of-home EV charging, with 20% of owners now charging their EVs at shopping centres, 20% at work, 11% at hotels and 8% at restaurants. Almost one in five owners (17%) charge at petrol stations, but only 7% give this as their preferred charging location. In fact, 12% say that not having to visit petrol stations is the best thing about EV ownership. Figures from Zap Map show that at the end of June 2022 there were 32,663 publicly available charge points in the UK, 34% more than the year before, which might explain why only 8% of those surveyed by CTEK cite a lack of local charging facilities as their biggest frustration, down from 30% in 2021. The number of EV owners giving driving range (the distance that a Real-world EV costs EV charging payment specialist Mina has launched a new quarterly report, which for the first time will provide real-world data on EV costs Analysis of 32,500 home and public charges in the first Mina EV Report – Summer 22 (June to August) shows a big rise in real-world home charging costs, with the average cost of home charging over the summer up more than 30% at 26 pence per kilowatt hour (p per kWh). The average pence per mile (ppm) cost for an EV charged at home was 7ppm for cars and 10ppm for vans – double that of the Government’s Advisory Electricity Rate (AER) of 5ppm. In nine out of 10 charges, drivers would be out of pocket if they reclaimed costs based on the AER. The average cost of public charging was 56p per kWh – a rise of 19% over the previous year – although there was a big variation in public charging tariffs, from the cheapest at 30p per kWh to the most expensive at 277p per kWh. Mina CEO Ashley Tate said: “At Mina, our technology monitors every single charge, and every piece of associated data from the moment a car or van is plugged in.We know every tariff, at home and in public and how much it costs for every kWh.We believe this quarterly report will provide a benchmark for the entire EV sector.” The report also shows that on average EV drivers only spend around three-quarters of an hour charging in public, generally taking on around 90-100 miles of charge. Mina’s payment solution for EV charging allows fleet and business EVs to be charged at the employee’s home, work and on the road, with a single monthly invoice for the business. Mina Homecharge pays the employee’s energy supplier for the cost of charging their company EV at home, while the Mina Chargepass RFID card enables employees to charge at thousands of public charge points across the UK, including all charge points within the Allstar and InstaVolt networks. https://ev.mina.co.uk/mina-ev-report-summer-2022 say that availability of public charging would make them more likely to buy an EV. Slightly more (50%) cite charging facilities at work as an incentive to switch to an EV. This rises to 81% amongst former EV owners. More than half (59%) cite lack of EV roaming, where drivers can access different providers’ chargers and networks, as a major frustration, dwarfing other issues such as reliability of out-of-home charging (9%) and complexity of payment (7%). New CTEK survey highlights changing EV charging habits and driver preferences EV businessinfomag.uk magazine 32 Cecilia Routledge Global Director, Energy & Facilities for CTEK Ashley Tate CEO, Mina Vehicle being charged with CTEK Chargestorm Connected 2 EV charger
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