I’ve no doubt it’ll improve but this is the government we’re taking about and I’ve no doubt we’ll see people left behind and forgotten. Don’t get me wrong I like the idea of EVs and love the improvements that have been happening and we do have 9 more years to go… maybe EV companies will work together, I’m not hugely confident they will. But when the government mandates things they tend to do so without thinking. We’re going to see situations where people are just screwed without infrastructure changes.
I drive a 7 year old Diesel car and it’s still a beautiful drive, I expect it to last at least about 8 years minimum. I could buy a brand new ICE car in 2029 and feel confident of it lasting in the the 2040’s but you’ll see petrol getting harder to buy and it’ll soon be easier to adopt street / workplace / home / retail charging.
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I am not sure the Leaf did much more than that from new 
Joking aside there are sub £10k small electric cars about to hit the UK.
I lease an ENero and think there will be a load of second hand ones on the market next year. Great car.
And great news on the wall chargers. About time. I bet solar on the same houses will be pushed so the grid can cope.
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I am really intrigued by this comment … because it is very easy to get charging points installed at people’s homes now-a-days [I mean houses, even terraced ones but not flats etc]. Many of the EV car manufacturers provide this service as an add on, at least three electricity boards will do it and even the RAC will get it done for you.
So yours must be a pretty special situation.
It’s a rural tourist business location. Huge car park, but 66% of all visitors is during the 6 weeks of summer.
Most contractors / suppliers want a constant stream of users, that’s the problem.
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I still don’t get it. There is something else going on here. Suppliers to domestic location put in a charging point. That’s the end of it and their relationship with you (unless you go for a maintenance contract … but that, in any case, can be with someone else). I am not sure why a business supply, even a rural one, would be different unless of course if there is no electricity in the first place that is another story.
Lol, if you knew the location the you’d know that electricity supply is not the issue. (Our location has a guaranteed supply, due to government / MOD reasons, and if one power plant goes down our supply switches to another one).
The problem lies in who pays for the installation. We have no intention of paying any money for installation, and would prefer a contractor to fund it and take all the profit apart from a small site rental fee.
Are you saying you host your website in-house, like on a physical machine at your location on a <10mb connection like it’s 1995 or something, or did I completely misunderstand that?
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Ah Ok. That is your issue. It is not really that suppliers run away from an installation. What you really want is that some company installs, at its own risk, and operates a charging point near/close (or perhaps even at) your business or locality which has tourist pull.
I see no reason for any operator to want to do this without a substantial premium on the cost of the electricity provided.
We actually has several companies contact us unsolicited about putting in charging points at their cost offering us a 'location rental fee". Citing their wish to be in a major local tourist attraction. That is until they discovered that the tourism is seasonal.
The wrong Sussex for me but great news that these are being rolled out. Local authorities should set up a public private partnership to install these and generate revenue for tax payers