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The IndependentI read your editorial about this monumental bill passing its second reading with interest. Susan Alexander Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire Plugging in Your recent article on public EV charging costs perpetuates unhelpful hysteria, ignoring the real reasons behind pricing, including factors largely beyond charge point operators’ control. It was useful that Rod Evans from the RAC correctly pointed out that electricity accounts for only a fraction of the total cost, but it’s also worth noting that CPOs often enter fixed contracts, so we’re not paying 50p per kWh one month and then 9p per kWh the next. If my income were 100 times as much, my council tax in pounds would not change, therefore the rate would be 0.1 per cent. If council tax were visualised against income above the tax threshold, mine would amount to 33 per cent.
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