CUPRA TAVASCAN

Stylish SUV is integrating itself into our lives quickly and easily, and that’s despite the absence of home charging

- Dawn Grant Dawn

AS my colleague Tom has found (p50), if you don’t have home charging, running an electric car is more expensive than it could be. This situation isn’t helped by the fact that the pricing and speed of connections across the various chargepoint providers is a minefield in itself. It's something that new EV converts need to get their heads around.

I tend to try charging on cheaper slower chargers if I’m out for a few hours, or use the fast chargers at various supermarkets that, although expensive, at least offer the benefit of convenience.

However, I travel fairly regularly up from Dorset to London, and my husband received an email from Instavolt offering a cheaper price via the app for its brandnew superhub near Winchester, Hants.

It’s the UK’s largest rapid-charging hub, with 44 chargers all run on renewable energy. Plus it was just a four-minute diversion from my normal motorway route, so I felt I really should give it a go.