Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? (www.express.co.uk)

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Airbnb owner claims holiday makers running cables out the window is theft if electricity.

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[-] frazorth@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Are you saying it is something between £15 and £50?

At £50 l, that's more than my wife's car is to fill up, and would let it run for 400 miles or so. Are those numbers accurate because that's wild that electricity costs as much as petrol.

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[-] Docus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Electricity at home hasn’t been 7p/kwh for decades. 30p is a low estimate.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

7.5p/kwh overnight with an EV tariff on octopus. Even non-EV tariff night rates are like 17p/kwh.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

And it’s very unlikely that this home owner is on that tariff

[-] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

googles for numbers

https://energyguide.org.uk/average-cost-electricity-kwh-uk/

Area	Average variable unit price in 2021 (p/kWh)	April – September 2022	Estimate for January 2023
East Midlands	18.4	26.3	31.9
Eastern	18.8	27.8	33.8
London	18.9	28.2	34.2
Merseyside & North Wales	20.2	28.2	34.2
Northern	18.4	25.8	31.3
North Scotland	19.3	26.6	32.3
North West	18.4	26.7	32.4
South East	19.5	26.5	32.2
South Scotland	18.8	26.5	32.2
South Wales	19.5	26.9	32.7
South West	19.5	27.1	32.9
Southern	18.8	27.1	32.9
Midlands	18.6	26.5	32.2
Yorkshire	18.2	26.1	31.7
United Kingdom (including VAT)	18.9	28	34

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Recharging a Tesla 3 at home comes to just under £30 by my calculations

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dang electricity must be expensive AF over there. Where I'm at in the US I pay $0.04/kWh (super off peak) and can fill up 0-100% (75kw) like 3 times for only $11 (£8.61)

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It is very expensive here at the moment. Wholesale electricity prices went though the roof last winter, largely due to Western Europe's erliance on Russian gas

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