NY wrote:
This is the problem with electric cars when you don't have your own drive
but must park at the side of street and then get power from the house.
No-one wants to park a long way from their house, wherever there happens to
be a free charging point, and then walk home from there and then walk back
when their car is fully charged.

This is all very silly when all they can get out of their string of
extension cables is 13A, and possibly only 720W if they were obeying what it
says as the capacity of wound extension reels (which they probably aren't).

We already have a solution for this - it's what happens with dropped kerbs.
If you want a dropped kerb outside your house you ask the council for
permission, pay the fee, their contractor comes and makes it for you.

You could imagine the same principle for charge points - apply to the
council, council electrician comes and installs approved charge point in the
road, wired in to your electricity supply, council makes good the pavement.
You get a proper 32A (or whatever) fast charging point outside your house.

Such charge points could for example be billed separately to your home
electricity supply, and maybe you could agree to other people using them for
some cut of the proceeds. You could then enrol them in a public charging
network. And then maybe it wouldn't matter if your space was full, because
you could park a few doors down and use their point on the same network.

This would seem more efficient than trying to run off the 'lamp post' supply
that only has a few amps capacity. Maybe they can load balance, so when you
run the oven, tumble drier, electric shower and GSHP all together the car
scales back its charge rate to avoid overloading the supply incomer.

Theo