In article , Theo
wrote:
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.

But you don't have a reserved parking space outside your house.

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