EV general discussion

[b0rn2sk8]

In London you are forbidden from parking on the pavement and they have enforcement, even out in the ‘burbs’.

in the busier parts, individual spaces are marked and residents permits are in force. They effectively put a cap on the number of cars people in the area can own.

That will be the reality in a lot of these places if street bollards are to be put in. The challenge is how do you deal with the issue of there already being more cars in the area than the street realistically have space for. Even if you one way street to enable double parking, it will unlikely be enough.

 

[chanjy]

TBH there will be a certain proportion of the population who will have to go to a charging hub to charge, or use workplace charging. There's no answer to this - these cars all have to go to petrol stations now but a charge up might take a little longer, that's all

 

[bigmike20vt]

TBH there will be a certain proportion of the population who will have to go to a charging hub to charge, or use workplace charging. There's no answer to this - these cars all have to go to petrol stations now but a charge up might take a little longer, that's all

ideally the handful of charging points at supermarkets etc will be significantly expanded that way no one is waiting around... their car will be charged whilst doing the weekly shop etc

but the prices need to be bought in line with fossil fuels

 

[kefkef]

My street is similar, loads of front gardens lost to parking. A small handful are EVs.

I think people just don't like parking on the road and want their own personal space.

Probably simpler than that. In the original picture there's no/few dropped kerbs, therefore free for all for parking, people have the attitude of wanting/expecting to park their car in front of their house, they get peeved when they have to park half a street away and walk to their house. Answer, convert garden to parking with dropped kerb, i can now park next to my house and people can no longer park in front of it.

Said it in another thread, there was a house on the street next to mine, 4 bed detached with 2 car driveway. Mum, Dad & 3 kids stayed there. Big extension later, the original 5 adults are still there, plus 2 boyfriends and a girlfriend. 8 adults.... all with their own car, plus dad, son and 2 boyfriends all have work vans... 12 cars/vans lined down the street as none of them wanted to park on the drive and get blocked in. Thankfully the 2 girls have now moved out and the dad & son share a van for their own business, so down to 4 overnight, but the 2 girls are back most days.

 

[tamzzy]

From a quick look it's only London that has a significant amount of houses approx. 40% without a car, look at the rest of the country and it drops to approx. 20% and those figures are a few years old.

yeah and also the fact that TFL is soooo much more developed than anywhere else in the country, and coupled to that, driving in london is expensive and with all the congestion, probably as slow as public transport
for a large proportion of people, there really is no need to own a car in london
one of my friends moved to london for work and sold their car a couple of months after as it was basically sat unused in a paid carpark and costing money