Legislation could remove the need for local councils to do anything. There are private companies who want to install charging on UK residential streets. But at present, there's a lot of red tape making life incredibly difficult.
Oh I know totally. This is a bit like when we had the cable companies enabling everyone to get cable as it was better than a BT line. Now what do the majority still use? Yep a BT line
So for years we constantly had people digging holes and causing disruption enabling everyone in some areas to have cable and whilst a fair few switched many who did ended up going back to BT
Unless its properly controlled we could well see the same, different companies installing different equipment. Then what, you suddenly find that "awesomepower" has installed down your street, who just happen to be the most expensive provider, with equipment that fails and they seem to have no engineers to fix them.
We really need someone to take this seriously and not rush it. The disruption and mess for something to be rolled out that may end up superceded pretty quickly, and yet leave the mess behind doesn't bear thinking about.
There is a real risk the council will end up having to fix the issues if these private companies install stuff then go bust.
Still far more logical to install chargers where people are driving
to.
Doctors surgeries, small shops, carparks (of all types), etc. Because when people arrive they can top up, so a trip to the docs is normally what 20-30 mins? Perfect for a top up. Plus out of hours the locals can use the car parks with the chargers.
The utilisation would be much higher generating a return far more quickly, and hence not needing to charge such a premium. I think on street for locals on parking would have a pretty terrible return on average when you consider how many chargers would need to be installed and how much energy in general for the average driver they would need per year.
