Choosing an electric vehicle based on a long mileage range doesn’t always mean they will charge up quickly.
With so many new electric vehicles coming to market, it is important to consider a few different aspects before you decide which vehicle is right you or your business fleet.
How does vehicle charging work?
The charging speed of your electric vehicle is determined by two main elements.
- Output: The maximum charging output from the charging socket
- Input: The maximum charging power that your vehicle can take
Output: Different charging outputs
There are some standard charging outputs that are commonly deployed in the UK.
When you are looking to charging your vehicle using a public charging point, you will find an array of different outputs. It is important to understand that it is your vehicles maximum charging input that will determine the speed in which your vehicle will charge, not the speed of the charging point alone.
For example, if your vehicle can take a maximum of 11kW AC and you plug your vehicle into a 22kW AC charging socket, the vehicle will only take it’s maximum 11kW which will then determine the charging speed.
Input: Your vehicles charging capacity
With being an electric charging point installer, we commonly get asked by customers to install a 22kW charging socket because they believe their vehicle will charge faster than it would using a 7kW charging socket. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
We have analysed the maximum charging speeds for some of the most common electric vehicles on the market today.
You will be surprised to learn that very few vehicles can charge using a 22kW input
See how quick each vehicle will charge for 60 minutes using some of the common chargers on the market
We have calculated how miles your vehicle will charge per hour using some of the common AC and DC charging outlets in the UK. We have also included the percentage of the vehicles battery that will be charging during this time:
Is your car not on our list?
All of our vehicle data is sourced on the Electric Vehicle Database which provides a thorough breakdown of range mileage and charging options for all full electric vehicles on the market and for those soon to be launched.
