Electric cars - Driveway essential?

artyclarty

All the taxi drivers here are LPG. I have a few friends who taxi and the thing holding them back is having somewhere to charge when waiting as they all live in houses with no parking and so nowhere to charge when off the clock. Most garages around here carry LPG, I assumed this was the normal!

Ozzuk

I work in a industry linked to EV and there are significant moves underway to maximise on it. This is already built into many company's roadmaps but it is certainly being accelerated by government policy pressures. It will be a slow takeup but pace will increase and EV will become the norm (IMO). Charging capabilities will need to change though - we're seeing an option of interchangeable batteries on the horizon rather than making batteries last longer. So petrol stations could become battery changing stations. This year 1 in 3 cars sold in Norway is EV (though their energy systems are far better than UK).

To OP, obviously your own drive is already a premium and to some a must have, I think it will only become even more important - partly due to EV, and partly because the volume of vehicles on our roads. You'll see more schemes of people renting out their driveways - perhaps even renting out charging stations. Perhaps I should buy EVBNB.com a bit sharpish.

elsien

davidmcn wrote: »

It's a promise by Boris.

Must be true then. After all he's never been known to stretch the truth in any way, has he?

teddysmum

Are the garages in a block with a shared roof ?

My sister's bungalow had a shared walkway with roadside garage blocks of six where owners had to cover the cost of any roof repairs. In her case two of the six refused (didn't have cars), but the roof was leaking badly and in danger of falling in.

Luckily a detached version, with its own garage and drive became available, just a few doors away, so she moved.

MrsPorridge

If you have a charger in your driveway which comes off your electric, What happens when you are away on holiday - what's to stop a neighbour plugging in and charging their car?

Also we own a motorhome, will their be electric motorhomes in the future?

smitchy73

MrsPorridge wrote: »

If you have a charger in your driveway which comes off your electric, What happens when you are away on holiday - what's to stop a neighbour plugging in and charging their car?

Simples, all chargers are fused both on the charger and at your fuse box, switch it off, stops anyone using it.

smitchy73

MrsPorridge wrote: »

Also we own a motorhome, will their be electric motorhomes in the future?

There are a few conversions kicking about made from Nissan eNV200, but with increases in size of electrified vans, it should be easy enough for the motor home manufacturers to conjure something up.

Davesnave

MrsPorridge wrote: »

If you have a charger in your driveway which comes off your electric, What happens when you are away on holiday - what's to stop a neighbour plugging in and charging their car?

Probably a little switch on your consumer unit, like there is for existing outdoor circuits.

Davesnave

Here we are discussing electric vehicles like they're new technology, yet I got into trouble for forgetting to plug the van in after I'd played with it.....in 1959!

It was a Morrison Electricar and once a week it provided basic transport from a tiny village in Dorset to the nearest market town. It also found uses around the small estate where my Dad worked, but in the evenings I could drive it around the farmyard.

Most of them were milk floats. Here you go:

markin2

Most street charging is very expensive, Fine for once a week but i think would put most EV drivers off, In 10 years time many of your buyers will be EV owners.

And insurance is quite a lot cheaper if you have off road parking isn't it.

And installing in road charging would make HS2 look like pocket money.