pwa wrote:Take a look at some of the pics in this article. Look at the ones on public streets. Then imagine if there were lots of charging points, and the effect on a blind person crossing the road and having to re-mount the pavement between two parked cars plugged in to a shared charging point. Or, as someone said, someone pushing a pushchair.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42944523
You keep banging the blind person drum.
If I want to be harsh then it's an inconvenience for a minority vs deaths & ill health from pollution for the majority.
Rather than pointing out the problems how about suggesting solutions?
My solution is to say "no" to on street charging.
This should make you happy and it'll have very little impact on most electric car buyers who tend to be middle class and either live or work somewhere a charger can be fitted and who will represent the majority of electric car purchasers over the next 5-10 years.
You may think I'm being harsh here, but by denying folk who live in street fronted houses the ability to charge cars up there it'll put immense political pressure on the government to find suitable alternatives.
You can easily install fast chargers in public places. Perhaps parks - kill two birds with one stone. Get folk out to a park to charge up their car and have 20 minute walk whilst they're waiting!
Then there's all the other stuff, inductive chargers etc etc.
From what I know of friends who live in street fronted houses I think once self driving cars arrive they'll give them up in droves. It's not like they can use them anyway, most of the time they don't for fear of losing their parking space.
If they could press a button on their phone and a car turns up quickly to take them somewhere they'd be more than a little keen.