(August 15, 2021 at 1:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 15, 2021 at 12:58 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: There are others. Where I live, there is plenty of parking, but none of it is assigned. One takes whatever one gets. Thus I (nor any of my neighbours) can have charging points.
That's a much more significant problem - electric cars won't really take off until there's infrastructure to support them, and no one wants to invest in the infrastructure until there's a lot more electric cars to make use of it.
Boru
Yup. I saw a suggestion that mandatory charging points be installed at every parking space. That might solve the problem, but I can't see who will fund such an effort. I am not even sure the existing electrical infrastructure is sufficient. In fact, it probably isn't.
Right now, I scored the spot closest to my home, about 20 feet from my kitchen window. That would be workable. If I pop out to the shop for whatever, someone else will grab that. If there are a lot of folks about I might have to street park. Gonna put a charging point there are we?
As I look out my kitchen window, I can see maybe 30-35 cars parked. Imagine the load that would cause if we were all plugged into the grid? And that is merely what I can see from my kitchen window. The local substation would explode.
