Where do you charge it if you live in a terraced house?
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Where do you charge it if you live in a terraced house?
Saw one on Sunday. The owners had the charging point on the outside of the house, cable from the car across a (not at all busy) pavement via a very small front garden. The road was effectively a dead end so hardly any passing pedestrians.Originally Posted by az city
charge it at tesco penarth
The one in Barry has a free 22kw charger (and a paid 50kw one). That's pretty impressive, but the standard free 7kwh ones which you find everywhere (incl Tesco Penarth) are more than enough really.charge it at tesco penarth
Any other Tescos' with free chargers?
They're run by Podpoint so download their app or go to their website and you can get locations from there. You're only allowed to park for 3 hours in Tesco though I think so you won't get a full battery from their 7kw chargers
Yes, most of them are (and are generally 7kh). The general rule is that 7kw chargers are free; 50kw you pay for.
Tesco St Mellons
I've got an EV but have a driveway to charge it on. It's a bit unfair really as those who can park on driveways get a govt grant to install a home charger as well. But it is not impossible and I do have colleagues with EVs who do not have access to home charging who get on fine.
Depends what you want it for really: if its your main/only car that does 10k+ miles a year and lots of long journeys then I suspect the lack of a home charger makes it very inconvenient because you'd only be able to charge it at stations/shops and that would take a few hours so you'd have time to kill. Not really a problem at home when you can fully charge any car overnight, but if you have to take the car out to charge it for a few hours ahead of a long journey it will be a bit of a faff in a way that a quick trip to the petrol station won't be. So for those without a private parking space, it is going to be a lot more difficult and I personally wouldn't go for it as we only have the one car so do need to do overnight charging quite a bit.
But if you want a second car to nip around town in, then I suspect that even without easy access to home charging it would be manageable (and this is the case for some of my colleagues). Chargers are in more places than you might thing and certainly more than are advertised on the various apps. I don't go to many places where I park the car that doesn't have chargers, and most of them are free. If you've got a little EV like a Corsa E with a 50kwh battery you would fairly easily keep that topped up as you potter about town. And you can always charge from a 3 pin plug anywhere of course, even at home, in an emergency.
How do you think they are going to solve the home charging ("terraced house") problem once everyone has an electric car?
Not really my problem to fix. But a combination of
i) faster charging;
ii) more charging stations; and
would be my guess. Longer ranges would help a bit, but not as much as the others. Although a lot of the current crop already have the ability to charge very quickly anyway.
As I say though- at the moment if I had one car and no easy access to home charging, I'd stick with petrol for now. With access to home charging it's a piece of piss to use EV tho.
But you don't think most people would be able to charge at home?
The opposite. I think most people would because I imagine most people have somewhere they can park their car where they could install a charging point (or an outdoor socket). But I could be wrong- it might be that the majority don't have access to a private parking spot.
If you've got a drive it is pretty simple: you can buy a 7kw home charger for a few hundred (and is sometimes provided with the car, mine was); or you can simply use a normal socket which will work just fine for many.
I think this is the only way and it's not exactly different to what happens now. The speed of charge will have to dramatically increase though if it is to work
Dramatically? you can already stick hundreds of miles in something like a tesla 3 in 20 mins and that charges at 250kw - and we already have 350kw chargers. It is never going to be a 2 minute job to fill it from empty in the way you can with your petrol car, but then rarely would you need/want to charge an EV from empty to full in a way you might normally with an ICE car.
And with access to home charge, it is really simple. I spend no more than a few seconds to charge my car each month, far less than I spent at petrol stations with my diesel.
Especially as most people in terraced houses, can’t park directly outside their own house
The intention is to install them in lamp posts. Seriously. Apparently it's not that difficult to install and lampost charging is available in London.
https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-e...harge%20points.
On reflection, won't people swap the cables to pinch leccy off others or cheat/interfere with the system?
The cable is locked to the car. You can't just remove it , you'd have to unlock the car first
How about designing a lamppost with charging sockets?
There's a business idea in that.
Couple of years too late sorry... Already being introduced into Middle East and India.
I'm getting a Tesla 3 in 2 weeks.. handy for Pontprennau
Shoulda got a Tesla truck.I'm getting a Tesla 3 in 2 weeks.. handy for Pontprennau
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck
My neighbour thinks it's awesome, I think it may be the ugliest vehicle ever.
No chance up the Rhondda!
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