Charge your EV from home

DrEskimo

When I ran an EV in a terraced house with no parking outside, for the first year I used a public charger about 8min walk from me every sunday when I did the weekly shop. I was working in london so rarely drove in the week and once a week was no problem. Drove, plugged in, did the shop and walked home. Then few hours later walked back to pick up the car.

The following year when I got a job 40mile commute away by motoroway, I was able to keep the EV as the car park at my office had ample low cost chargers. So I also see workplace charging as a key to supporting drivers without drives, along with these initiatives.

subjecttocontract

1. Not everyone has a public charger available to them an 8 min walk away.
2. Neither does everyone have access to car chargers whilst working.

There are always going to be a few people like yourself who can find a work around but it's the 4 million households who don't have a work around that's going to hold things up.

Cornucopia

It doesn't need everyone to have access to all the possible charging solutions - it needs enough people to have access to solutions that work for them.

It also doesn't need all of those solutions to be available now, but to be gradually growing in number over time to keep pace with demand.

DrEskimo

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Never said everyone did. My point was as @Cornucopia says, there are lots of different solutions to meet different people’s needs and increases availability of all these different solutions is what’s needed (trenches, lamppost chargers, popup street chargers, car park chargers, workplace parking chargers, rapid chargers, etc.).

Just thought my experience of someone actually running an EV who once lived in a terraced house would be interesting to the debate, as this particular solution wouldn’t have worked for me, but others did.

Bigphil1474

I used to live on a street of terraced houses in Leeds and some days you were lucky if you could park in the same street never mind near your house. There was a car repair garage at the end of our street which didn't help. However, I could almost guarantee that I'd get a space near my house at least one day during the week if I was home earlier, and almost certainly at the weekend - which is when we did the shopping. I could see this system being of use to some people. I was under the impression you can go to the council direct for this though anyway. Could be wrong.

shera12

Thanks for sharing! 👍 It’s great to see options for charging EVs at home even without a driveway really useful for city drivers.

born_again

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Simple solution. Which is where any gov money needs to go. Not giving it to reduce costs of buying cars.

ALL public car parks have to have 50% spaces with a 7-22kWh charger @ sensible price. ALL employers with car parks for staff. Have to have 50% spaces with charging installed.

Councils have to install lamp post chargers in all lamp posts. As well as any gullies when requested.

This can easily be funded by removing the subsidy to councils for further cycle lanes. Till 2030

This has to rise to 100% by 2030 or 35 when ever the no new ICE come in.

Herzlos

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Then hopefully somewhere that car goes over those 10 days has a charging facility, or the owner needs to make a trip to their nearest charging facility.

It's not as if you can only charge at home.

subjecttocontract

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That doesn't sound like a great way to persuade a person to buy an EV.

subjecttocontract

Many public car parks in my area are privately owned. I doubt they would be willing to incur the enormous cost of the installation, born out by the fact that there are hardly any available at the moment.

A large number of people work for SME's with tiny parking facilities or on street parking. I can't see forcing them to install EV chargers is going to be a very popular move.

For a large proportion of the population the idea of owning and running an EV currently just ain't gonna work. Maybe they will just be operated by upper & middle class drivers as a second car.