The Importance of Car Charging Points

Electric cars are the future. That is an undeniable fact. The UK government will ban the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2030 with hybrids soon to follow in 2035. That means car charging points are going to be just as important, if not more so as the petrol stations of today. Marton Electrical, a vehicle charger installer is here to provide insight into the changes that will come to support electric cars.

Home Car Charging

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up every morning with a full tank of fuel? No more worries of rushing to the petrol station before work only to find a queue of people with the same idea. This could very well be a thing of the past.

As infrastructure improves and more people adopt electric vehicles over their petrol cousins home charging will become the new norm. Getting a wall box means you can charge your car quickly and efficiently overnight and have it ready and charged the next time you jump in.

The only problem is for this to work properly you need off-street parking such as a garage or drive. Those that don’t can still use the traditional chargers found in car parks all over including at work, shops and so on although there is a challenge for when they are parked up at home.

How Much Does it Cost to Charge an Electric Car?

One of the many benefits you’ll hear about with an electric car is the massively reduced fuel costs. Of course, an electric car doesn’t run on petrol or diesel unlike the majority of cars on the road in the UK.

Of course, you’d think that the money you’d save on fuel will simply be transferred to your electric bill but this isn’t the case. The average driver who does 10,000 miles a year spends £1,578.5 on petrol or £1,342.7 on diesel. For electric vehicles, however, this cost is reduced significantly costing around £436.80 a year.

This is a significant difference and over the lifespan of a vehicle will mean a massive yearly saving.

There are also grants available to reduce the cost of installing vehicle chargers at home and even for electric vehicles themselves up to £2,500 for vehicles costing less than £35,000.

Ultimately the future is electric. Sooner or later everyone will have to adopt electric vehicles and that means vehicle charging is going to be vital. As the infrastructure continues to improve there will be an increase in the number of electric vehicles on the road and car charging points will become vital.