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Perhaps your council will install a EV charge point in your road if you ask them, then you can charge it for free and get a dedicated parking spot ;)



This is such a deeply unsustainable practice it would be incredibly foolish to make any long term plans based on it. Special EV charging points (with the dedicated parking that comes with them) will disappear the moment more than a handful of EVs are used. It's just not feasible to install charging points at every parking space, and once the demand for those spaces that exist outstrips supply the resulting politics will almost certainly either kill them completely or result in them becoming expensive quickly.


Perhaps councils will see them as a way to make money and start charging for the electricity they provide. Could be a nice little earner when they become popular.


Councils already have a 'nice little earner' in charging for parking permits for residents. And then there is the fines for people parking in a residential area without a permit. They are already making a ton of money from parking without having to install a single wire.




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