Electric car charging prices rocket 58% in eight months: An average family-size EV charged at public devices now costs 3p MORE per mile to run than a petrol

 Electric car drivers who want to charge their vehicles en-route are forced to pay 58 per cent more than they were in May, a new market review has revealed.

The average cost to use a 'rapid' device across the different public charging operators in the UK at the start of January has risen to 70.32p per kilowatt hour, up from 44.55p eight months ago, according to new analysis by the RAC.

It says the owner of an electric family car with a 64kW battery will pay £36 to add around 188 miles of range, which works out at almost 20p per mile. In contrast, a driver of an equivalent petrol car will pay only around 17p-a-mile.

As a point of comparison, the RAC says the average cost to charge a family EV to 80 pent cent using a wallbox installed at home costs around £17.87 today - despite record high domestic energy prices....<<<Read More>>>...