Originally Posted by Neilda
Originally Posted by TheCustomer
I recently read that to keep up with EV demand the UK needs to install 1,000 charge points a day.


Would those be public charge points - on the side of the road? If so, I doubt that's the case.

EV's are like mobile phones, you charge them overnight and have a 200-300 mile range the next day (depending on model). Most people rarely travel over 200 miles in a day.

The hurdle is going to be what people do when they live in a block of flats or have no driveway. Converting those owners will be more difficult.



It was public charge points - iirc it came up in an interview on Monday's Today programme. I can't recall who, but if they're only half right and the need to match demand is 500 per day, then it feels like we're still way short.

Most people *do* live in blocks of flats! Even fancy regency ones like the one I'm in - we have some 650 flats in a square & crescent, and a couple of hundred spaces in the relevant parking zone. And 7 chargepoints in the parking zone, of which 3 are slow lampost chargers. So 1% of households needing an EV charge fills the spaces, assuming they're not ICEd.

And the underlying power infrastructure is a potential problem. A hop & skip away where I park securely underground, in a '70s block of flats, the cabling coming into the building doesn't have sufficient capacity available for car charging to be installed.

Even when people around here would like to buy an EV, they'd be reasonable to conclude that it's not a practical proposition, yet.

Will

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