I like to look at things from a different point of view and the way I see it it’s all to do with road tolls ?
I don’t have a clue if or what my local council plans are to install street chargers but one thing I do know that they have longed to install cameras around the city borders so they can charge commuters who live in the commuter belt to bring their cars into town.
So why hit commuters, well commuters live outside the council voting area and therefore they, the council, would not get a backlash from local voters who would be toll free and still vote for the council.
Up until recently that argument has always been about pollution down town and it is a good argument but with EV’s in the near future pipeline that excuse will go by the way so in light of that they have just a few years to get their argument over to install road tolls before there is no argument to be had and once installed under the flag of “diesels are killing us all” tolls will be introduced and once the gravy train has started they won’t be able to let it go and as diesel and petrol slowly disappear from our roads those tolls will without doubt get passed on to EV’s.
So now I come to why I think councils will be reluctant to install street charges, it comes back to those commuters again because locals can, or most can, charge at home and there would be no doubt that those within the local council catchment area who can’t have a charger at home would of course be exempt from toll charges so safe guarding local councillors votes while punishing those who’s electric cars are out of range of a return trip to work down town without a recharge.
Of course longer range batteries would put paid to that but as longer range batteries are more expensive then we come back to that age old problem of only punishing the poor who can’t afford long range batteries in their cars but again like I said above, once toll charges are in for ICE cars that will roll over to EV’s by the mid 2030’s so won’t matter even if your car has perpetual motion engine.
Then on the other hand we might still be in lockdown in 2035 so no problem and no excuses. ?