This Tesla charging station is seldom used (it's up in the mountains where Teslas rarely dare to go, especially in winter)
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so when Safeway is crowded, real cars park in the slots.
That's my Audi. It loves mountains and snow. We can make it from San Francisco to Truckee on one tank of gas, in a blizzard, with the heater and headlights on. With 4wd and snow tires, we just smile at the chain control checkpoint folks.
That looks like it's dead in the water.... How long before it gets trashed by vandals/water/dirt etc?.Madness and a trip hazard to all those who walk with a mobile welded to their ear... LOL
The newly elected Liberal Democrat council in my London borough tried to introduce a scheme under which the cost of residents' street parking permits would quadruple to £400 for petrol cars, and quintuple for diesels, but fall to zero for electric cars. The idea being (so they said) to encourage people to dump their Dirty Diesels and switch to electric vehicles.
The imbeciles on the council had to be reminded that the only residents who needed street parking permits were those who had to park on the street, and such people couldn't have electric vehicles because it wouldn't be lawful to charge them at the kerbside.
Many other arguments were raised against the scheme, but that had to be one of the killers.
You'd have to run a cable across the pavement, perhaps for hundreds of yards, creating both a trip hazard and an electrical hazard. Maybe not a criminal offence (I don't know) but certainly exposing you to civil liability for injury. And not scaleable to dozens of electric cars in the same street, because of the resulting spaghetti.
It is already possible in Liverpool, if you leave your house empty for a few days, to repurchase all your sockets, light switches and water taps from a local secondhand shop within a few days.
The title does actually say "Charging in the UK" and trailing mains cables carrying 230V across pavements is definately not allowed, from the trip hazard alone. In the UK we have a growing 'Compo culture' from a group collectively referred to (by supermarket and shops) as 'Slippers and trippers'
A cull of people who don't watch where they put their feet with every step. What sort of clueless halfwit installs trip hazards on a kerb?
The small pole thing looks more plausible although they will get very interesting when SUVs and delivery vans mount the kerb and smash them. You only have to look at the state of roadside bollards and smashed up paving slabs to see how it will end.
I wonder how well they will work after being crushed?
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