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UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the preparing-for-the-future dept.

A new government proposal included in Road to Zero, a report on climate-change related policies, would require all new homes to be fitted with electric car charging points. It follows a commitment made last year by the UK to end sales of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. The Drive reports: "It is our intention that all new homes, where appropriate, should have a charge point available," a government statement said. "We plan to consult as soon as possible on introducing a requirement for charge point infrastructure for new dwellings in England."

To help achieve that goal, the U.K. will reportedly establish a 400-million-pound ($531 million) fund for companies that manufacture and install charging stations. The government is also reportedly looking at integrating charging stations with newly-installed streetlights, as well as wireless-charging technology. A new Automated and Electric Vehicles bill will also give the government power to mandate installation of charging infrastructure at highway service stations.

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  1. Potential Debcale by JBMcB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds like one of those situations where they install charging stations all over the place, then in ten years there is a new standard and all the old charging stations are now obsolete.

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    1. Re:Potential Debcale by Z00L00K · · Score: 1, Interesting

      I'd like to get a 400V 3-phase charger, that would be optimal. Then add to it that every new building also should have solar panels that could be used to balance the added power needed to charge the vehicles.

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  2. We won't own cars by then anyway??? by ClarkMills · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In one alternate universe nobody owns cars anyway, just autonomous rides requested by us from A to B. Then the shared car goes off and charges itself up in the nearest distributed charging station.