I will be one of the last adopters to an electric car, can’t be bothered with the longness of it all. Find a charger that works, find a charger that is compatible, find a charger that no one is using, waiting 30mins for a bit of juice and various other issues. It’s good if you can make it work for you and can charge it at home but I live in a flat where there is no charge point and if there was they would have to give each parking space a charger because I know for one I’m not going to be moving my car after a few hours of being comfortable inside and I’m sure that goes for most people, especially at night time.
This I get, it’s about solving each of the problems. I lived in a flat but moved to a bungalow in 2016 with a view to eventually running an EV, I’d already decided back then that I needed to move, that was my solution to this problem but it can be solved in other ways & will be. Pop-up charging points by every parking space is an option & it’s about cost of installation & metering, these problems can be solved, they will have to be solved.
I had problems with the standard BP Chargemaster install offered through Motability, they would only install a short cabled version, and their charger was “dumb”, I decided this wasn’t good enough so invested in something else instead, that being an “intelligent” charger that can read off when electricity rates are cheap & preferentially charge the car only when electricity from the grid is “clean” & very cheap (I charge at night when it’s windy at the turbines mostly). I’m also able to switch my heating to electric when the price of electricity falls so much that it’s cheaper than mains gas (2.9p/kWh in my case) using smart plugs & thermostats, but this is relatively rare. Pretty much everything goes electric when the price of electricity drops below zero, if I’m awake I’ll charge the drill battery, the strimmer battery, the lot.
Ms E.Scrooge