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I recall you mentioning that several of the chargers are in the town centre and away from supermarket, and that although the Fire Station charger is close to Morrisons it’s not convenient, although Aldi (or was it Lidl?) had a charger but you don’t shop there.

So if you had an EV (but you don’t) and you couldn’t charge it at home (which you can) then you could choose to shop at Aldi (although the inference is that you would prefer not to) so even in Market Drayton there is another supermarket with a charger.

Lidl and Morrisons are close to each other so we use those most ... Morrisons has a fuel forecourt too, and there's a Shell station right next door. We don't fill the vehicles that often but I bring diesel for the tractor home in a 20 litre jerrycan and V Power for the mowers/power tools in a 10 litre can (much more often in summer of course). If we do need any fuel I drop Mrs BTB off at the supermarket door first so she can start shopping, then go back after filling up to park and meet her inside. The town centre car parks are all pay & display (not sure what the deal is if you're using the EV chargers there), so we never use those. If I'm going anywhere else I park at Lidl (free) and walk the short distance instead.

I'm not sure where the fire station is in real life - I've never noticed it when walking around. The two charge sockets there are only 7.2 kW and both seem to have been out of action for about 6 months. Apparently there are also access restrictions when the Fire Brigade are doing drills!

Aldi only has two charge outlets - one 11 kW and one 22 kW (both 25p per kWh). So not very fast, but better than nothing if available. Aldi is also just outside the town - too far to walk to anywhere else from (bank, solicitors, etc.). McDonalds (the only rapid charger in the area - one 60 kW and one 120 kW, both 'up to' and costing 85p per kWh) is outside the town, so would only make sense if you were eating there. Those chargers seem quite heavily used as it's just off the A41.

If we're heading towards the M54 we go to Lidl or Aldi in a small retail park on the A41 near Newport. There's a BP fuel station there which we stop at if we need fuel, but no EV chargers (even slow ones) anywhere - you'd have to divert to Telford if you needed one.
 
Yes, I thought that you probably only do 8,000 miles a year in it.

We do a little more than that - 34k miles in 3 years. We bought the car at 1 year / 5800 miles (MB demonstrator during Covid).

Hopefully the annual mileage will reduce a bit now that both my parents have passed away and their house has finally been sold. Most of my family are down South though so there will still be occasional runs there e.g. to my uncle's funeral in Leatherhead recently. Off to see my sister in Worthing on Sunday then coming back via Guildford ... that will be around 430 miles. Mrs BTB has been to southern Germany and back in it a couple of times as well - possibly going there again next year on the way to Portugal.
 
10.6730 kWh @ £0.48 kWh = £5.12
  • Round trip average of 4.4 miles/kWh
  • Typical consumption of 4.4 to 6.6 miles/kWh
  • £0.48 kWh / 4.4 kWh = £0.109 per mile
Earlier I was looking at the previous invoices for charging sessions in the Tesla app, and all apart from the most recent in Sunday were £0.40 per kWh, which is outrageously good (no subscription required).
 

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