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"The hike in price means drivers who only use the public network to charge vehicles pay around 18p per mile for electricity.

That is just 1p less per mile for a petrol car, based on someone driving at an average of 40 miles to the gallon, the motoring group said.

The cost per mile for charging electric vehicles at home is around 9p per mile for the average-sized car. The BBC has been told most EV drivers charge at home overnight."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63029226

64p per kWh vs £1.90 per litre looks like parity between the two ~3 kWh ~= 1 litre petrol a fair estimate (~11 kWh ~= 1 us gallon)? Obviously your mileage may vary.

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If you live inside a European city, how do you charge your car? I don’t see cords going inside of windows… I only ever see public spots. What gives?

"Inside a European city" is quite a broad concept. Some people will indeed have parking next to where they live.

Otherwise the next best option is to charge the car at the place they work if they commute by car and their employer offers that.

Other options are to include charging into your mental overhead and use options whenever you are out shopping (larger supermarkets with parking often have charging options), training (parking next to football fields might have charging), use public charging spots but that can be time consuming when your next one is further away.

Source: We own an electric car and charge at home but we recently considered moving to a place without home charging and had to figure out how we would deal with that.

< “Inside a European city” is quite a broad concept

Is it though? Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome… dominated by 3-5 story mixed-use, with some special area for skyscrapers, and farmland near to the edge of the city. (Or, near by American standards)

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

Have an EV-plug installed into the side of my house. I run a cable over the crosswalk to the car from there.

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