FUMING Tesla drivers have claimed to be sick of paying extremely high prices at the UK’s most expensive charging station.
Angry motorists in South Wales claimed to be paying skyrocketing charges to fill their tanks.
Welsh drivers are paying a staggering 76p per kWh to “fill up” at Sarn Park service station in Bridgend.
The hefty charge is more expensive than the UK’s cheapest stations – and at least twice as expensive as recharging at home.
Unhappy EV owners are now fed-up with the “ridiculous” prices every time they plug their vehicles.
Health worker Lucy Fyfe slammed the manufacturing company and the charging point station saying to “rip them off”.
Ms Fyfe, 36, said: “This is my local facility as I don’t currently have the means of recharging at home, so they’ve kind of got me over a barrel.
“The price we’re being asked to pay here is nothing short of outrageous, but we have no other option at the moment.
“I feel totally ripped off, to be honest. I don’t know how they can justify charging people so much. It’s not as if we’re not already paying a fortune for our gas and electricity at home.”
It costs around £30 to charge her new black Peugeot E 2008 for 90 minutes – which will give her a 210-mile range.
But Ms Fyfe said to spend hours from her valuable time charging the vehicle twice a day – because her daily commute is more than 160 miles.
Locals added the charging points are “wasting their time” as they have to charge their cars several times before completely filling the tank.
Exasperated Ross Stenner, 67, routinely charges his Kia Niro at an Applegreen power point.
The plant supervisor drives more than 30,000 miles a year inspecting facilities around the UK.
So he spends between 50 and 90 minutes every weekday recharging his car at nearby Sarn park.
Mr Stenner said: “It’s ridiculous. Prices here have more or less doubled in the past 18 months.
“And if I go inside the service station, they’ll want to charge me another £4 for a cup of coffee, so I bring my own nowadays.”
Other drivers in the same area are not impressed by the advanced electric gear as they claim to be “almost as expensive as diesel“.
Tesla owner Graham Owens, 63, who lives near Sarn park bought his car for £39,000 four years ago.
He added: “They’re charging way too much. I hope that as the infrastructure improves and more people buy electric vehicles – as they’ll soon have to – service stations like this won’t be able to charge so much.
“When you think about it, it works out almost as expensive as filling up a petrol or diesel vehicle. That’s plain crazy.”
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