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Airbnb owner claims holiday makers running cables out the window is theft if electricity.

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[–] reddig33 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What is that, like the equivalent of 2 euros on the electric bill?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No, I would say 1kWh being 30-50p and the car battery, say, 50-100kWh, maths would end up being between 0.3*50=15 and 0.5*100=50. Not insurmountable, but definitely not nothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you saying it is something between £15 and £50?

At £50 l, that's more than my wife's car is to fill up, and would let it run for 400 miles or so. Are those numbers accurate because that's wild that electricity costs as much as petrol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recharging a Tesla 3 at home comes to just under £30 by my calculations

[–] brlemworld 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang electricity must be expensive AF over there. Where I'm at in the US I pay $0.04/kWh (super off peak) and can fill up 0-100% (75kw) like 3 times for only $11 (£8.61)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is very expensive here at the moment. Wholesale electricity prices went though the roof last winter, largely due to Western Europe's erliance on Russian gas

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm looking at my Tesla app right now in the charging section and I average about 15 dollars a month of electricity, at 14c a kw/h.

So somewhere around 0.50 cents a day in added cost. This landlord is just being fussy and fearful of the "new".

Like people back in the day thinking light switches could shock you dead for flipping them.

*I looked it up for the area specifically and their electricity is up to 40 cents equivalent dollars a kilowatt hour, so it could be up to 3.50 or so bucks a day if it's charging non stop. Electricity is expensive over there and I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a UK sub, and unfortunately our electricity is not that cheap at the moment. A current quote from Octopus energy:

Tariff cost breakdown ⚡ ElectricityDaily standing charge 47.95p /day Unit rate 30.3p /kWh

[–] brlemworld 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't understand why conservatives are against energy independence.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meh, charge more then. Electricity utilization is typically included with vacation rentals.