Business bunker electricity card?

[OldGermanHeaps]

I have a bunker diesel card, which works at around a third of service stations that i can use to buy diesel at a flat discounted rate, same price everywhere regardless of pump price, i get an email every week with that weeks price.
Is there such a thing for public chargers?

[md_ph]

I have a Porsche and a bmw card that does similar to this, I prefer to use the Porsche charging card as the rates on Ionity at £0.30 per kWh if I’m charging either my car or my wife’s.

[PetrolHeadInRecovery]

Outside of car companies' offerings, Chargeleague is probably the closest. Same conditions for stations of four networks.

You'd need an app for one of the partner networks. I haven't tried yet to see if the IONITY card would work on other networks or if you'd need to use the app. Will know more after the next proper roadtrip.

[samoht]

Many of the charging networks have 'subscription' schemes, where you pay a monthly fee and get a cheaper rate at their chargers. I'm not sure how many cross-network schemes there are to open up a larger proportion of chargers.

What's your use-case, are you all over the country or more up and down a specific route or covering a certain area?

[OldGermanHeaps]

Dont know yet, just trying to see if trying to do some of my business mileage in an ev would be worth it financially. My van does around 21mpg and it uses about 13 to 15 grand a year in diesel. A lot of the time i could get away with a carload of tools and parts instead of 3400kg of the kitchen sink. It can do 27mpg if i load it a bit lighter and drive slowly, but time not on site is money wasted so it works out better to take more stuff and get there quicker.
Not sure how an ev would fare heavily loaded and foot to the floor for long periods, i have heard using a lot of public chargers the price of them works out to 20mpg anyway.

[borcy]

Allstar do one for EV charging.

https://allstarcard.co.uk/solutions/ev/allstar-cha...

[samoht]

It sounds like the new Renault Master can get around 200 miles real world
https://www.carwow.co.uk/renault/master-e-tech

What proportion of your jobs fall inside a 100 mile radius of base? Could you charge the van at work/home overnight? That's where the real fuel savings vs diesel can come in.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Not looking for an electric van, i could work from a car around 3 days a week with a reduced set of kit only taking what is necessary.
Tried a couple of electric vans on test drive. With all my kit inside, but minus the weight of racking range was less than half the advertised range.
Gradually moving to having others do the tasks that need a van too.
Plus, i have had several renault vans. Every one of them constantly had electrical faults.

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Saturday 24th January 22:53

[ashenfie]

OldGermanHeaps said:

Dont know yet, just trying to see if trying to do some of my business mileage in an ev would be worth it financially. My van does around 21mpg and it uses about 13 to 15 grand a year in diesel. A lot of the time i could get away with a carload of tools and parts instead of 3400kg of the kitchen sink. It can do 27mpg if i load it a bit lighter and drive slowly, but time not on site is money wasted so it works out better to take more stuff and get there quicker.
Not sure how an ev would fare heavily loaded and foot to the floor for long periods, i have heard using a lot of public chargers the price of them works out to 20mpg anyway.

Using my really bad man maths and assuming you work as many as 49 weeks of the year your doing around 200miles per day. That means your likely be charging with a van during the day.
If you can down size to a car then great, still pushing the limits Thu.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Not far off. We pack the miles in. Trying to cut back though