On Friday, 20 March 2020 19:13:31 UTC, Robert wrote:
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Article about a Maida Vale Street with chargers in the lampposts:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...osts-to-charge
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Apologies if this has already been mentioned

Paywall; but other publications reveal they've converted 24 lamp-posts
to "overnight" chargers. That's around 750amps. For whatever reason,
those lamp-posts are not connected to the local substation in the normal
way.
Yes the "spare" capacity in converting to LED lighting mentioned comes
nowhere near the 5.5kW taken by each charger.

Apologies in that the article requires a Times Subscription to read
fully. Glad you found another source.
The relevant paras a
"All charging equipment is housed within the post and motorists plug in
vehicles to a powerpoint. Charging wires are locked at each end, meaning
that passers-by cannot disconnect vehicles. The 5.5kW chargers typically
take eight to ten hours to charge a vehicle.

It is designed for slow charging rather than the far more powerful rapid
chargepoints that can power up a battery in only half an hour but
require a significant upgrade to the supply.

The project, carried out with Ubitricity, an energy company, and
Westminster city council, forms part of a wider introduction across the
borough. In all, 296 lampposts have been converted in the borough,

Cedrik Neike, of Siemenss Smart Infrastructure, said: €œHalf of Londons
air pollution is caused by road transport.€�

Bull****.
Nobody runs their battery to depletion or anywhere near.
Ergo charging takes much less time than that.