Summer 2022 public charging prices

It’s 2022, most fossil fuel prices as well as electricity costs have doubled, Tesla superchargers are opening for all EV’s and all kinds of manufacturers from Hyundai to Audi to Porsche are either planning or started building their own charging networks.

Fast charging prices have therefore doubled evenly across the board, if we take Supercharger prices for example they went from 28p per kWh to 60p per kWh (without member disoount)

To compare with my previous https://www.evmetrics.co.uk/blog/summer-2021-public-charging-prices year prices, here are the bp pulse ones currently

This is the new world we live in even if much of the electricity is already generated from sustainable sources that should not be affected by what’s driving up fossil fuel prices.

Surprising instead of highlighting the fact that there is one type of energy that is partly sustainably sourced and not subject to the cost volatility of fossil fuels electricity is tarred with the same feathers.

Take this chart below for example, we can only assume they mean electricity in the price per kWh chart below, If only electricity and “energy“ would not be used interchangeably …

Until we see a “fossil energy“ and “green energy“ separation emerging i don’t expect expect the electricity prices to stop moving in sync with the fossil fuel prices and that is a shame but unfortunately much beneficial to the few.