Electric Car Charging Across The UK - Infographic

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Electric car use is growing in the UK. But where the devil do you find a car charging point, and how much is it to have one installed at home?

We've searched the UK and found that most electric car charging points are located in the North East the BBC reports. There's no London bias when it comes to electric cars, though the first charge point in the UK was installed in Westminster in 2006. The most picturesque charge point has got to be the one at the Galson Trust on the Isle of Lewis.

Not all charge points are created equal. Some can get your car juiced up in just half an hour, while slower points will take all night, according to Next Green Car.

One of the benefits of electric cars is how cheap they are to charge up, just £1.50 a pop, according to What Car? but did you know there are free charging points at some Tesco stores across the UK?

If you're going electric, expert charging advice from Energy Saving Weekly says charging at night produces less nitrogen oxide and the way you charge can extend your electric vehicle's battery life.

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08:33 on 30/01/2013
wow great blog of you .. keep up the good work :) how do i sell my car
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08:25 on 06/06/2012
In the Charging tips it says that charging at night has reduced NOx. How did they prove that?
You buy your electric car and get British Gas to fit a charging point at your home for £800. Ecomentalism is one big rip off.
10:06 on 06/06/2012
Do British Gas fit electric charging points? As you suggest, the NOx claim cannot be justified.
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16:59 on 07/06/2012
Yes, I remember the road films from the USA and they always had NOx injection to go faster and I think some trendy ad man put down NOx wrongly. As for "electric cars" having CO2 reduction, you have to work out the CO2 produced/KwH to have a rating
23:25 on 06/06/2012
But it isn't environmentally friendly, the car caused massive amounts of CO2 when it was made, far more than will be saved by not burning petrol, it would have been cheaper if they could put eclectic engines in existing vehicles.
There is also the fact that if a battery is charged often it will need replacing within 5 years, which will cost several thousand pounds a time, electric cars are in the long term not cheaper, not environmentally friendly and are not a truly viable alternative to petroleum based engines.
15:46 on 04/06/2012
Go to timmins Ontario Canada where they make batteries, it is so barren as the pollution kills everything, the astronauts train there as it looks like the moon!
11:37 on 04/06/2012
My car does 15mpg on a run and 10 round the town, I often drive it hard and it does even less, I enjoy it.
You see my car uses lots of petrol but in the grand scheme of things it is not really making alot of difference to the world because if I dont't drive it, someone else would.
It was produced a couple of years ago and created more pollution in it's manufacturing process than it does in its daily running.
You see countries like China and India do not really care about polloution, they are more interested in creating wealth for thmselves and dragging themselves out of poverty, you will not find the Chinese government taxing the man in the street because his car uses a little more fuel than another, my car may do 10mpg and my friends may do 30mpg but does this really matter when so called developing countries pump out more pollution in a second than my car would in 50 million years!!.
I pay 10 times the road tax than my friend but where does it go, I pay 3 times the fuel duty, but where does it go, ohhhhhh yes it goes to many so called needs including foreign aid to India and china.
09:58 on 04/06/2012
Why don't they set up charging points and electric cars witth instant removal of battery. So you swap your dead battery for a charged one in a matter of minutes instead of having to wait all night. So it's only £1.50 to recharge, but the room for the night while you are waiting on the motorway won't be free.
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00:21 on 04/06/2012
Whatever is done you are going to be fleeced just to get that newspaper that's only a five minute walk away anyway-forget all about it and don't bother with a car at all i say-with careful planning and not being so idle you can get about by other means.
20:40 on 30/05/2012
The only way forward for the Electric car is inter changeable batteries, as used for Fork lift and pallet trucks in large warehouses. When you charge gets low you drive into a garage and swap for a fully charged battery. You pay only for the miles you have covered since the last battery change and the battery remains the property of the battery manufacturer so life of batteries is of no importance to the car owner.
16:28 on 30/05/2012
Just put petrol in. Buy 3 litre cars cheaply and spend the rest on fuel then you won't have to keep nuclear power stations going due to the high demand for electricity.
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11:20 on 30/05/2012
all i said was . why cant they make a car with its own generator so when its moving it makes its own power, & just needs a battery for when it is stopped to get it moving again ???? dont remove it this time H
21:21 on 04/06/2012
What would power your "Car Generator" Battery to get it moving fine but what is your proposed method of keeping it moving?
20:06 on 06/06/2012
Due to no machine being 100 percent efficient your idea don't work. You get less power out of a generator than the effort put in to generate that power also the lectric motor gives less power out than the lelctric put in.
If you connect an electric motor shaft to a generator shaft and connect the wires one to another and spin it it stops faster than it would if you disconnected it.
They use this idea as a brake for heavy vehicles it is called a telmar.
Sorry but it's true
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11:17 on 30/05/2012
huff where has my comment gone???????????
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10:22 on 30/05/2012
why cant they make a car with its own generator so when it is moving it generates its own power to move it , & just use the battery to get it moving? is that too simple or am i thick for thinking it might work?..
21:22 on 04/06/2012
see my reply/question above.
09:46 on 30/05/2012
As with diesel engine cars,we will all be suckered into electric powered cars,and yes road tax will go through the roof falsing all of us to go electric,and then they will hammer us with high charging prices,i remember the talk of Methanol,but it was to cheap to produce and to tax.
14:06 on 21/05/2012
We all take wrong turnings at some point on a long journey. The trouble with an electric car is that taking a wrong turning can be costly. It can mean the difference between being able to reach your planned charging point or not. Whereas the rest of us in our petrol cars will always find petrol. And another thing, what are you supposed to do while your car re-charges?. Imagine having several kids with attention spans of about a nano second. Got to love petrol.
10:00 on 30/05/2012
You are spot on and even if you find a point some of these cars take 12 hours or more to charge .Until the charge times improve i think they are best left alone .Then there is the cost of replacement batterys after about 7 years which is £5000+ .this does not make them an attractive used buy.
09:38 on 21/05/2012
I have heard [not from a very reliable source, admittedly] that electric cars are NOT going to be the way forward ~ apparently hydrogen cells are being looked at more favourably.
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20:34 on 21/05/2012
They said the same thing about ethanol , anyone remember this ? way back in the in the mid 80 ? ( I was in kindergarten lol ).
10:02 on 30/05/2012
Hydrogen cars are like riding round in a bomb Mercedes trialed this fuel in buses but i have heard no more.
10:31 on 30/05/2012
I assume you are thinking of the Hindenburg! Technology has moved on a bit since then and Hydrogen (Fuel Cell Vehicles) are still in development. As you rightly say Mercedes have trailed this in a bus, and GM, Honda and Boeing have all been working on this technology too.

One of the biggest problems though is the amount of power and influence that the petroleum industry has on governments globally, and until this is resolved we will not, I fear, see major advances in cleaner technology.
12:48 on 04/06/2012
10 gallons of a petrol is a "bomb" too!
13:21 on 17/05/2012
And there is already talk of the road fund licence soaring upwards on these cars to make up for what they will lose in fuel tax.
01:17 on 06/06/2012
The road fund licence (road tax in old money), fuel taxes and VAT will all have to be increased to offset the tobacco and booze tax losses through misguided do-gooders efforts to impose their will on ordinary folk.