Topic: | Re:Lib Dems policy on EV charge points | |
Posted by: | Joanna Dabrowska | |
Date/Time: | 22/08/24 22:24:00 |
The article is somewhat incorrect, populist and ill-researched. If you can charge at home and you are on tariffs such as Octopus Agile or Intelligent, you for free charging for an hour free today or yesterday. Or you can get it as low as 7p if you charge at home. If you’ve a CCS socket, Tesla at Park Royal after midnight were selling it at 32p/kwh this week. The council are often installing the outdated CHAdeMO and CCS tends to be for the pricier EVs. Type 2 is the common cable albeit slower. As for the parking points, they should change all of the lampposts into multi socket chargers with rapid chargers in high footfall areas. Enfield council is trialling the gulley-like charging at home options but with costs of over £1200, again it is for the wealthier residents not wealthy enough to have a driveway. Maybe we should have vehicle wireless charging that has emerged in the experimental world. I would prefer hydrogen but with only three ‘nearby’ fuel stations such as Hatton Cross, Teddington and Beaconsfield, although Teddington has now closed I believe, and with less than half a dozen of models on the UK market, it’s a shame that as hydrogen world leaders, we are not pushing that. What is the future of private vehicles if new ICEs will be banned within a decade? Are EVs the VHS/Betamax of the transport fuel industry? Is there any point in investing in an infrastructure which has a short lifespan? What should we be investing in? |