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Loss of earnings
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Indeed.
Which is why I also said there's much more to this story than has so far been divulged.
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You have a legal obligation to mitigate your losses, so why did you charge the vehicle elsewhere?
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Yes, but I don't think the OP really need to go into the history of the disputes with their neighbour, as they're not pertinent to the question in hand: "Can I sue my neighbour for loss of earnings because they blocked access to my drive thus preventing me from charging my car at home?"
But, whilst the neighbour's behaviour is clearly (to me) unreasonable in this instance (parking on someone elses drive without their permission is not on), the answer seems to be: No, because you have a legal duty to mitigate your losses and you didn't do that. You could have charged your car elsewhere. You could have then, potentially, sued your neighbour for the difference in cost between public charging and home charging. But because you didn't do that you've probably lost the opportunity to do that.0 -
OK.
The OP has the answer to their question.
End of thread then.
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I don't think the OP not mitigating their losses would preclude a claim, but the claim would likely be limited to what they would have lost if they had mitigated them, which is probably going to be low enough as to not be at all worth bothering over.
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I struggle to see where loss of earnings are here?
If they had blocked the car in yes, but OP was free to drive car, charging at home would have been only a couple of £ at worst.
But not being able to charge a car for around 30 miles would not equate to loss of any earnings.
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They are claiming they were unable to charge their vehicle at home overnight so were unable to work the next day. Presumably they had worked that day so the vehicles range was depleted and insufficient for the following day's jobs without being charged
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Unless they arrived home with insufficient range to reach a public charger wouldn't that still be limited by the fact that they refused to mitigate their losses?
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As it was a PHEV, then it is self charging.
So on the basis of a claim of not being able to charge any claim would be in the around a £ at worst.
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which is what i said
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