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Tesco and VW Plan Free Electric Car Charging Points

posted by martyb on Friday November 30 2018, @08:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-does-one-get-a-free-electric-car-to-use-at-these-charging-points? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBCTech:

Free charging for electric cars will be available for customers at some Tesco stores from next year.

Tesco, in partnership with Volkswagen, plans to install almost 2,500 charging bays at up to 600 stores by 2020.

A standard 7 kW charger will be available for free, but drivers will have to pay for a faster service.

Customers will be able to leave their cars to charge while doing their shopping, which should give time for a "substantial" free charge, VW said.

Adding chargers to the supermarket parking lots will offer convenience for EV driving shoppers, and normalize EV use for others by increasing their visibility.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Saturday December 01 2018, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday December 01 2018, @08:37PM (#768720)

    Unless I seriously misunderstand something, the EV driver's "fuel" costs almost nothing.

    You could say (in the UK anyway) that an IC driver's *fuel* costs almost nothing - most of the cost is taxes. EVs will only remain untaxed as long as there are not many of them; the Inland Revenue will not be able to satnd the massive cash hole if many people migrate to EVs. There will be a need for taxation by miles driven for EVs, possibly paid at charging time by electronically reading the odometer, and that will level things up a bit.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 03 2018, @02:58PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 03 2018, @02:58PM (#769155) Journal

    The comment I was replying to about the EV fuel cost might have been thinking that other shoppers are unfairly subsidizing some high cost EV fuel rather than some minor marketing gimmick.

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