“But what about people who live on the fourth floor of a towerblock?????”
One more shibboleth of the EV-deniers unplugged.
Plus. Who’s going to run them and how much are the thriving bastards going to want?
Maybe they could fill in all the potholes first, Surrey’s roads are like the fucking Somme.
Every council should be doing this. Our council has installed 6 charge points. And you have to pay for parking to get there.
How much does this Connected kerb charge to use them?
Too bad they’re sticking them on pavements, like this one(https://i.imgur.com/adsFknL.png) is just the first random one I saw and along with the black box(which is also part of the charger) it takes up half the width of the already narrow pavement. It’s like a street would be 10m wide, then the road would be 7.5m wide for the lane and parking, and then they’ll decide to put more car stuff(charger) on the 1.25m left for the pavement.
Compare that to how a couple of London boroughs do it which is just simply putting them in the road. Crazy concept I know. Here’s one https://i.imgur.com/Yl8Kygg.png . They should all be like this, it’s like the easiest no effort thing that councils can do if they have to build them. It’s crazy to me that pavements are already narrow enough and are even used for parking in most places and then councils decide to now put chargers on them too, especially since it’s likely that the same council will go on about how we should use active travel more.
I don’t even think they’re needed but that’s a different topic.
I’ve installed connected kerb chargers before. They’re (at least the ones I did) 76mm posts with the little box kerb side. Most of the equipment is in the metal box under the ground or the feeder pillar.
Unlike a lot of chargers they are that much of an obstruction
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There’s about £8 worth of copper in each charging cable… the rest writes itself.
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“But what about people who live on the fourth floor of a towerblock?????”
One more shibboleth of the EV-deniers unplugged.
Plus. Who’s going to run them and how much are the thriving bastards going to want?
Maybe they could fill in all the potholes first, Surrey’s roads are like the fucking Somme.
Every council should be doing this. Our council has installed 6 charge points. And you have to pay for parking to get there.
How much does this Connected kerb charge to use them?
Too bad they’re sticking them on pavements, like this one(https://i.imgur.com/adsFknL.png) is just the first random one I saw and along with the black box(which is also part of the charger) it takes up half the width of the already narrow pavement. It’s like a street would be 10m wide, then the road would be 7.5m wide for the lane and parking, and then they’ll decide to put more car stuff(charger) on the 1.25m left for the pavement.
Compare that to how a couple of London boroughs do it which is just simply putting them in the road. Crazy concept I know. Here’s one https://i.imgur.com/Yl8Kygg.png . They should all be like this, it’s like the easiest no effort thing that councils can do if they have to build them. It’s crazy to me that pavements are already narrow enough and are even used for parking in most places and then councils decide to now put chargers on them too, especially since it’s likely that the same council will go on about how we should use active travel more.
I don’t even think they’re needed but that’s a different topic.
I’ve installed connected kerb chargers before. They’re (at least the ones I did) 76mm posts with the little box kerb side. Most of the equipment is in the metal box under the ground or the feeder pillar.
Unlike a lot of chargers they are that much of an obstruction
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There’s about £8 worth of copper in each charging cable… the rest writes itself.