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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 02:47:11 PM EST
A quarter of an hour recharge is not a game changer. Plus, how far does one recharge take you ?

And having recharge points at motorway service stations is all very well for people who mostly drive around on motorways, but given present technology, electric cars really work best for people who do a lot of short journeys or live in cities, ie never get near a motorway. And that's where they need their own personal charge point... at home. But, given UK housing, siting those is going to be less easy than most might imagine.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:06:06 PM EST
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Putting in commercial charge points is not exactly a major problem - anyplace the grid goes. No reason why every non-mechanical parking meter couldn't offer a charge. And motorway services - a cinch.

Very many Finnish apartment block parking areas with assigned spaces already offer a plug in for pre-heating the car in winter.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:14:59 PM EST
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That's Finland, where that sort of forward planning is built in and paid for decades in advance. The UK isn't quite like that...

You'd have to dig up every pavement in every town and city. The cost would be colossal. Not only that, but even if a standard charging point is agreed now, building codes will not be changed until 2050 to have them built. And then the local scallies will either vandalise them or run their games machines/dope farm heating and lighting from them

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:51:40 PM EST
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