Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:21:43 on Tue,
17 Mar 2020, Theo remarked:
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.

Not so clever when you have a 60A main fuse.


Provided your €˜tails ( the cables from the incomer (main cable) to the
meter and meter to consumer unit) are 25mm, the power company will upgrade
you to 100A free.

There is a page on the website, you pop in some basic details, book a date,
someone turns up, does the swap, job done. Unbelievably efficient.

The two chaps who did mine were great, they commented on my earth bonding,
which led to an interesting chat re how much of they work was involved in
changing earths to PME and a few other things. Even did an Earth check. All
for a cup of coffee and chocolate biscuits.