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Rachel Simmons

Rachel is a former financial journalist who got into EV writing after spending three weeks trying to understand her own company car tax implications and realising that if a financial journalist couldn’t work it out, normal people had no chance. She has a particular talent for making spreadsheets entertaining, or at least tolerable. Before writing full-time, she spent six years at a consumer finance publication that no longer exists, which she insists is unrelated to her tenure.

How much does it actually cost to charge an electric car in the UK?

22 March 2026 by Rachel Simmons

It’s the first question everyone asks when they’re thinking about going electric, and the answer they usually get is “it depends”, followed by a wall of numbers that makes their eyes glaze over. So let’s skip the hedging and get to the point. If you charge at home on a standard electricity tariff, running an … Read more

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