>The standard rate for charging up at a Gridserve electric forecourt will be 24p per kilowatt hour of clean electricity, which beats the current lowest ultra-hi

>The standard rate for charging up at a Gridserve electric forecourt will be 24p per kilowatt hour of clean electricity, which beats the current lowest ultra-high power charging rates. This means a typical charge for an average electric vehicle – from 20% charged to to 80% – would cost under £10 This is one of very few articles I've seen on electric vehicles which has actually put a price on the cost of a recharge. Most such articles don't even mention money being involved and would almost leave you with the impression that in our magical zero carbon future [0], the motoring fairies will let you top up for free, wherever you are. It would be interesting to do some comparisons to find out the kind of distance this £10 for 60% worth of charge would allow you to travel, compared to, say, £10 worth of diesel or petrol in a similarly sized ICE vehicle. Back of a braincell calculations suggest I could get somewhere in the region of 80 miles on a tenner's worth of diesel in my ancient VW van. A modern efficient ICE engine should easily be able to double that. [0] Don't take this to mean I'm anti-environmental. I just think a lot of the press gives the impression that electric vehicles are produced, charged, run and disposed of with no environmental cost at all.