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On diesel hitting £2 a litre (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

Because huge swathes of UK housing is hundreds of years old and doesn’t have driveways or even nearby on-road parking so cars can’t be charged at home, and the charging infrastructure that does exist is insufficient or inconvenient.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This is a huge part, I used to live in an upstairs flat which formed part of a house in a Victorian terrace. Parking was parallel parking in any nearby street, with no front garden worth mentioning, and definitely no driveways.

    There is literally no way that I can think of to make a situation like that work with home charging, and sadly similar situations will apply to millions of people. If the only solution involves me driving to the nearest supermarket car park and plugging in there for an hour every few days, then that isn't a solution at all unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Especially as commercial chargers are waaaaayyy more expensive per unit, makes the financial savings argument disappear too.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    A few months back we idly pondered using my partner's PIP towards getting a new EV. As we don't have a driveway and we rent, we'd have to take the offer that includes membership to one of the charging schemes. Thing is, it includes the subscription, but not the cost of the charging, which ends up being only just shy of what petrol costs. And the nearest charger is a mile away.

    So we just bought an old, cheap petrol car.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Incoming planning changes means you will be able to get a channel put through the pavement so you can install a road side charger outside your house. Obviously this doesn't help people without assigned/adjacent parking, but helps a lot of people get over that hurdle.

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