Electric car charging

Marvel1

RichardD1970 said:

Deleted_User said:

All this cop out where if you can't charge at home you can charge at work or the supermarket. Yeah ok, work doesn't have chargers and I don't have any need to visit a supermarket every day.

But 90% of people won't need to charge every day. Week and a half would do me in normal life with a half decent EV.

Curious, how many miles is that?
I currently do 27 miles a day.

RichardD1970

Marvel1 said:

RichardD1970 said:

Deleted_User said:

All this cop out where if you can't charge at home you can charge at work or the supermarket. Yeah ok, work doesn't have chargers and I don't have any need to visit a supermarket every day.

But 90% of people won't need to charge every day. Week and a half would do me in normal life with a half decent EV.

Curious, how many miles is that?
I currently do 27 miles a day.

My commute is between 6 and 10 miles each way, depending on the route I take, which depends on time of day (shift work) and traffic conditions (lots of road works due to HS2 buggering everything up). With a bit of weekend running around, although since Covid that has reduced significantly as the wife does the majority of the shopping before or after her shift as she works there.

No far flung family to visit and an occasional UK holiday where I am never in a rush so stopping to charge if needed won't be an issue.

My next car probably won't be EV (within the next year or 2), but the one after, almost certainly.

Eric_Pisch

Polly05 said:

Does anyone know if you can get a charging point fitted (on a pole type thing), in your designated parking space in a car park outside your home?
Thanks

Yes you can, you just need the approval of whoever is responsable for the land between your home and parking space

My installer ran the cable under the path, reinstalling it so that you could not tell it had been done, installed the post etc. and claimed the OLEV grant against the cost of installation.

Knowing what i know now I would not have run a second cable for a charging point for the OH as one is plenty for two cars.

https://imgur.com/szLjW0L

Make sure you sign up for a cheap overnight electrcity supplier like octupus go - 4.5p/Kwh (£1 per 100 miles)

DrEskimo

Eric_Pisch said:

Polly05 said:

Does anyone know if you can get a charging point fitted (on a pole type thing), in your designated parking space in a car park outside your home?
Thanks

Yes you can, you just need the approval of whoever is responsable for the land between your home and parking space

My installer ran the cable under the path, reinstalling it so that you could not tell it had been done, installed the post etc. and claimed the OLEV grant against the cost of installation.

Knowing what i know now I would not have run a second cable for a charging point for the OH as one is plenty for two cars.

https://imgur.com/szLjW0L

Make sure you sign up for a cheap overnight electrcity supplier like octupus go - 4.5p/Kwh (£1 per 100 miles)

That's great to hear. I was wondering how difficult it would be for the OP, but that certainly suggests it is very possible!

neilmcl

Eric_Pisch said:

Polly05 said:

Does anyone know if you can get a charging point fitted (on a pole type thing), in your designated parking space in a car park outside your home?
Thanks

Yes you can, you just need the approval of whoever is responsable for the land between your home and parking space

My installer ran the cable under the path, reinstalling it so that you could not tell it had been done, installed the post etc. and claimed the OLEV grant against the cost of installation.

Knowing what i know now I would not have run a second cable for a charging point for the OH as one is plenty for two cars.

https://imgur.com/szLjW0L

Make sure you sign up for a cheap overnight electrcity supplier like octupus go - 4.5p/Kwh (£1 per 100 miles)

Is there anything preventing other people using your charging point?

davidmcn

neilmcl said:

Eric_Pisch said:

Polly05 said:

Does anyone know if you can get a charging point fitted (on a pole type thing), in your designated parking space in a car park outside your home?
Thanks

Yes you can, you just need the approval of whoever is responsable for the land between your home and parking space

My installer ran the cable under the path, reinstalling it so that you could not tell it had been done, installed the post etc. and claimed the OLEV grant against the cost of installation.

Knowing what i know now I would not have run a second cable for a charging point for the OH as one is plenty for two cars.

https://imgur.com/szLjW0L

Make sure you sign up for a cheap overnight electrcity supplier like octupus go - 4.5p/Kwh (£1 per 100 miles)

Is there anything preventing other people using your charging point?

Switching it off from the house?

[Deleted User]

neilmcl said:

Eric_Pisch said:

Polly05 said:

Does anyone know if you can get a charging point fitted (on a pole type thing), in your designated parking space in a car park outside your home?
Thanks

Yes you can, you just need the approval of whoever is responsable for the land between your home and parking space

My installer ran the cable under the path, reinstalling it so that you could not tell it had been done, installed the post etc. and claimed the OLEV grant against the cost of installation.

Knowing what i know now I would not have run a second cable for a charging point for the OH as one is plenty for two cars.

https://imgur.com/szLjW0L

Make sure you sign up for a cheap overnight electrcity supplier like octupus go - 4.5p/Kwh (£1 per 100 miles)

Is there anything preventing other people using your charging point?

Switch it off from in the house (isolation switch) but I think some have a pin system or some form of security like that.

Navigator123

The concept of EV vehicles is a great idea but is full off anomalies. 

The normal domestic car is not a heavy polluter but the buses and HGVs are. 

An HGV will travel an average of 260 miles a day carrying up to 32 tonnes of goods. 

Even the best electric motors and the most powerful batteries will only give the wagon a range of around 135 miles. 

Even with a 'supercharger' to replenish the batteries it would take over 3 hours to recharge. 

So, your supermarket food is now 135 miles away from the distribution centre and 60 miles away from your supermarket but now has to stop for 3 hours to recharge.  I

nstead of supplying 10 to 12 supermarkets a day with produce the lorry will only be able to supply 2 or 3.  Now we need 3-4 times the number of lorries on the road just to maintain the supply chain. 

Now tell me EV vehicles are the solution!

henry24

Navegator123 you have put just what I think but unfortunately I don't think you're allowed to say it on here as nobody on here wants to spend the next 15 years sorting the charging out before stopping the sale of petrol and diesel cars 

DrEskimo

Navigator123 said:

The concept of EV vehicles is a great idea but is full off anomalies. 

The normal domestic car is not a heavy polluter but the buses and HGVs are. 

An HGV will travel an average of 260 miles a day carrying up to 32 tonnes of goods. 

Even the best electric motors and the most powerful batteries will only give the wagon a range of around 135 miles. 

Even with a 'supercharger' to replenish the batteries it would take over 3 hours to recharge. 

So, your supermarket food is now 135 miles away from the distribution centre and 60 miles away from your supermarket but now has to stop for 3 hours to recharge.  I

nstead of supplying 10 to 12 supermarkets a day with produce the lorry will only be able to supply 2 or 3.  Now we need 3-4 times the number of lorries on the road just to maintain the supply chain. 

Now tell me EV vehicles are the solution!

HGV make up 18% of all GHG from transport and buses make up 3%.

In contrast cars and taxi's make up 55% of all GHG emissions from transport in the UK.
So you starting premise is entirely wrong....

Source: Page 6 
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/945829/tsgb-2020.pdf