T The fat connection to the National Grid is where companies such as GridServ come in with their grid connected batteries & solar arrays, but as of now they have only one, http://www.gridserve.com/braintree-overview/ .
Having just looked at the moving images on the website posted above, it struck me how disabled unfriendly it is, particularly for wheelchair users.
There are no chargers in the disabled bays.
Using a normal bay, a wheelchair user would have to park way outside of their marked box in order to get a wheelchair between the vehicle and the charger (to access the cables etc).
The chargers are on an island up on top of a kerb – again a problem for wheelchair users to reach the controls/payment slot etc.
Even if a wheelchair user could get onto the island, the roof supports are mounted in the centre of the islands (along with seats). Plus, the chargers are ‘back to back’ with only a small distance between them. It leaves virtually no room to get a wheelchair along the islands without having to do a slalom course, risking actually falling off the kerbs.
Perhaps they need to employ a few disabled people when planning their future designs!.