If you have a suitable garage or driveaway, most EV drivers will charge their cars at home overnight on an off-peak tariff. This is the way to maximise your ‘fuel’ savings. If you can't charge at home, it's still possible to lease an electric car and charge up in public effectively.
If you are out and about, there are now plenty of places for a quick charging top-up. For example, new charging points are being installed all the time at supermarkets, restaurants, shopping centres, gyms, carparks, B&Bs, hotels, etc. Some of these ‘destination’ chargers are free; with others you have to pay for the time you charge.
For longer trips, where the range of your electric car is not enough to get you there in one go, you can stop at motorway service stations and other convenient locations to charge. These charging points are heavy-duty and known as ‘rapid chargers’. Generally you charge for 20-45 minutes and then get back on the road.
Rapid charging stations are run by a variety of national networks including Instavolt, Tesla, Fastned, Gridserve, BP Pulse, Ionity and Osprey. Many now have contactless payment, making the whole process very straightforward. You can find your nearest public charging point via this helpful map: https://www.zap-map.com/live/.