Will it become a requirement to have EV charging points on new houses?

rach_k

The council here have started installing overnight/slow charging points in the lamp posts, where requested by residents.   My road of around 30 houses, the next but one road also has two.  There are also faster charging points on every high street, even the tiny ones, and in every council-run, supermarket and big carpark.  It's a fairly average area - some very wealthy, some very deprived and a lot of households that are neither!  Most don't have parking.  

prowla

user1977 said:

prowla said:

What are people going to do if they can't park their cars and charge them?

Charge them at one of the thousands of other places where they can do so. I'm not sure why people have got the idea that it's essential to charge your car at home. Obviously a huge proportion of homes don't even have a dedicated parking space, far less the ability to install a charger there.

Well, that's one perspective...

There seem to be about a dozen locations in my town (which is a bit short from thousands), with two being about a 20-minute walk away.

So, the routine would be drive the car to the charging point, leave it there for a couple of hours, walk home, walk back, get in the car and drive home.

That's a nice chunk of your day gone.

...I suppose I could then get one of those electric scooters to make it easier going back and forth from leaving the car at the charging station.

Regarding dedicated parking, hugely more homes have on-street or shared parking which is obviously not within a cable's length from their house.

silvercar

My local train station has a few “free” charging points. “Free” as in you only pay for parking.

user1977

prowla said:

user1977 said:

prowla said:

What are people going to do if they can't park their cars and charge them?

Charge them at one of the thousands of other places where they can do so. I'm not sure why people have got the idea that it's essential to charge your car at home. Obviously a huge proportion of homes don't even have a dedicated parking space, far less the ability to install a charger there.

Well, that's one perspective...

There seem to be about a dozen locations in my town (which is a bit short from thousands), with two being about a 20-minute walk away.

So, the routine would be drive the car to the charging point, leave it there for a couple of hours, walk home, walk back, get in the car and drive home.

That's a nice chunk of your day gone.

...I suppose I could then get one of those electric scooters to make it easier going back and forth from leaving the car at the charging station.

It doesn't need to be a dedicated journey just for charging purposes though (or take a couple of hours to charge). Where do you go with your car? My workplace has chargers. So do the supermarkets I go to. Shopping centres. Gyms. Coffee shops. Or public chargers handy for friends/family I'm visiting.

And how often would you need to charge?

Brie

No - poorer people don't always drive to other places.  They are like many of us who live & work locally, drive their kids to school, go to the supermarket which is nearby and, in our area, don't have charging points.  There are no charging points at all in the poorer areas and no way to charge at home.  No chargers at work either.  Until there is very low cost charging available overnight (or all day depending on shift work) on the streets where people live an EV isn't a possibility. 

You can't park your car even in supermarkets for the 6 - 7 hours that some people report are required to fully charge a vehicle so that's not an option - assuming there's even a spot available to use.  Charging points in supermarkets are the new "blue badge" spots that some drivers will use no matter what as they are convenient rather than required.

Flugelhorn

how long does it take to charge a car?  

FindMyWayBack

Absolute non starter, barmy.

GDB2222

We’re thinking about buying a house locally, and one major concern is the lack of off street parking. There’s space in the garden to park, but I don’t think that we would get permission. We would not be allowed to just trail a lead across the pavement, so how would we charge an electric car is precisely the question we are racking our brains over. 

Chances are that we won’t buy, mainly because of this. 

Sarahspangles

Most big supermarkets have a charging point now.  Presumably "poor" people also use supermarkets?

I wouldn't mind taking an EV to Aldi but I'll be taking my electricity home in a Waitrose Bag for Life

ka7e

It seems small independent developments near me are including EV points, but not neccesarily the large ones built by national housebuilders. My Mum is buying a flat on a small estate of 32 properties (mix of 6 houses and 26 flats) and 11 have their own points, plus 2 attached to visitor's spots. Another of 8 houses has an EV on every plot.