EV Charging at Supermarket - Still cheaper than an ICE?
Published 2024-02-12
This is our 3rd time of charging at Lidl but I have never got this 60 kW charger to give more than 40 kW. For sure a newer EV than the e-Niro with a higher charging speed may get better results.
At the end of the video I give costs, kWh, time spent charging and how many km added based on our average winter/summer efficiency of 14 kWh/100 km (4.4 miles/kWh). Then I compare that with a fossil fuel powered car rated at 5.6l/100 km (50 mpg).
Of course these results will vary depending on the price of charging where you live and the efficiency of your EV.
All Comments (8)
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Thanks, I'm enjoying the niro . Planing ahead on things I need to do charging overnight on level one charging has worked for me. Presently I have 22,000 miles driven one the car.
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Supermarkets and other stores or malls with large car parks are great places for chargers, they are very useful, if the charger power and reliability is good.
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Which charging network do the French Lidls use? In the UK it is PodPoint at 65p per kWh. Asking for a friend who will be travelling down to Saintes/Angouleme soon. I think having rapid DC chargers at supermarkets make more sense than less than 10kW AC posts, because you're not always going to be in that shop for 2 hours. However having a DC rapid at an Ikea is problematic as that shopper who is charging will be immersed inside for a long time.
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I appreciate your threads on the niro I have a 2022 model and i have no range anxiety whatsoever. I drive to work round trip 50 miles aday and have plenty left for running around town. Oh and by the way just using level one charging at home overnight
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39kw on a 60kw charger, did you precondition the battery through the gps in the Niro? To get the highest rate of charge ,I think you need to be around 15 to 20%.
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We're waiting to see if the Sainsbury EV hub roll-out in the UK gets underway quickly and whether it leads to a price war - we do rather need one here as are still (Tesla excepted) suffering from an old-fashioned ringing of prices. This was inevitable, when government subsidised installation of DC chargers, but did nothing about the rate that the little monkeys could charge for a charge.
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Hopefully EVS will be gone hateful souless crap😂
