"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
There is a world of difference between parking meters, needing zero
infrastructure, or running fibre down the street and that of providing
lots of 100+ amp supplies at the side of roads every few yards - like
generation, distribution, sub-stations, plus major and expensive
improvements in the distribution network.

We already have a high amp supply to nearly every house. Largely
unused at night. Nor will the average car user need to charge the
battery from empty to full every night.

Not sure of the current figures but average car mileage used to be
given as about 10,000 miles a year. That is less than one full charge
a week.

but how are you going to get a street full of cars to share out the
chargers fairly if they have to share on a 1 day in 7 basis?

You have enough chargers. One per bay if needed. It's hardly rocket
science.

Oh I know

because that was where the thread started and the comment based upon "you
only need to charge your car up once a week" was the solution to not making
the street scene look messy by having one charger per space



And that charger is going to cost a great deal less than the car.

As has been explained, it's not the cost of the charged but the work to
install it



Think of it like the early days of cars. Where you got your petrol from a
chemist. Supply will always keep up with demand, but usually with a lag.
It's called business. ;-)

unlike petrol supply, communal chargers need to be provided in excess of
demand, because they can be "over occupied" by people not actually using
them