New scheme will make it much cheaper to run an electric car in the UK – from 2 pence per mile

New scheme will make it much cheaper to run an electric car in the UK – from 2 pence per mile



Posted by Consistent_Cold9822

13 comments

  1. Seems like a positive step. I am always wary of how long it takes for the government to actually roll out infrastructure though.

  2. This is just going to cause more arguments about people “owning” their own street space.

  3. Ignoring all the making it easier to run cables bit for a second, are they actually going to make electricity cheaper? I may have missed it, but I would like cheaper electricity even if I don’t have an EV.

  4. Saving a click: government giving companies money to install systems that allows people without drives to charge their cars via cables going under the pavement.

    Won’t save the problem of not being able to park by your home though.

  5. nice if you can park with the charging point neatly aligned to the gully thing, which seems unlikely on most UK streets but you never know maybe it will work

    of course its not “free” so really this is those who cannot afford to buy a new EV subsidising those who can

    also for properties with no front garden, door opening directly to the footpath there isn’t anywhere for the external box anyway

    so a potentially interesting scheme, basically trying to subsidise new car sales, thats probably not going to make a huge difference and will likely end up causing all sorts of arguments over who can park where

  6. The scheme to help people who don’t have driveways will never work. The % of people who can regularly park their car outside of their own house when using street/road parking is very low.

    People already like to claim a certain spot belongs to them when it doesn’t, this is just going to take that to a whole new level of ridiculous.

    Also, having the huge bulky charger (as demonstrated by the photos in the article) just sat in the road/kerbside, what a great idea. Definitely isn’t going to get accidentally broken or intentionally broken whilst just laying in the road and/or in the way of somebody else trying to park properly.

    They can keep trying to force this EV agenda but this country just isn’t set up for it and it isn’t in a place where it can be retroactively changed to be so either. Unless you have a drive way, it really isn’t going to work for many reasons. That’s just simple fact.

  7. How does cross pavement technology work when people who park in the street generally have to grab any space available? In quiet streets where people can generally park outside their own house then great. Otherwise I guess let the cone wars commence.

  8. I would like to see them put into lamp posts, some kind of card reader so you can charge it to the home owner.

  9. We need to go back to horse and cart. Proper sustainable vehicles and lots of manure for the farmers fields. Yeah baby!!

  10. The prices are chargers need looking at. I had to pay £0.68 per kWh on Morrisons car park in Ross on Wye last week.

  11. All of the private companies contracted by this investment will eat up all the funds for just planning and report the same old excuse that it will cost more than planned. To which the government will willingly cough up another fold of tax payer money. Privatising profits, nationalising costs.

  12. Amen. I can’t wait to buy an electric car. Just got to save up.

  13. Completely ignores the elephant in the room, public chargers costing 80p per unit, triple what they cost in France.

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