New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law:
New homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, the prime minister is set to announce.
The government said the move will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year.
New-build supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law.
The move comes as the UK aims to switch to electric cars, with new petrol and diesel cars sales banned from 2030.
A turkey in every pot, and a charge point in every garage...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @03:25AM (9 children)
You millenials can afford neither a house nor an electric car.
Sucks to be you.
From a so-called "gen x-er"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by kazzie on Tuesday November 23 2021, @06:32AM (2 children)
I'm one country to the left of England, and at the older end of "milennial", but I did just manage to buy a house this year. The downside is that it's a terrace house where the off-road parking is down at one end of the terrace. Charging a car here would mean running a cable across two or three gardens, and then an access road. But even though that's going to be a headache in the future, it wasn't enough to be a dealbreaker. I'm going to wait five years or so before asking the local authority what plans it has for sorting this out (it's ex-council house stock).
Regarding the new ruling, if all new cars are going to be partially/wholly electric* in eight years' time, it'd be silly to continue building houses without provision for them.
*excepting a sudden come-from-behind for hydrogen fuel cells
(Score: 1) by aliks on Tuesday November 23 2021, @10:48PM (1 child)
err they put the charging point into streetlights . . . . not into your house.
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To err is human, to comment divine
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday November 26 2021, @06:40AM
That'd still be a pickle in my specific situation: the parking bays (perpendicular to the road) are across the street from the street lamps.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @11:52AM (5 children)
Sucks to be them? They can't afford houses because they are spending their money on "lifestyle experiences" because "memories last a lifetime." I saved my money and bought a house. However, I haven't had the pleasure of talking a couple years off to travel the world out of my backpack or do a lot of other really cool stuff. My house is in suburbia and I have to commute to my job because there isn't affordable housing near where I work. I would LOVE to walk to work, walk to the grocery store, bike everywhere I need to go, but I can't do that because where I bought my house. If you insist that you must live "in the city" and be able to do all these metropolitan things, that's great, but don't bitch that you can't afford a house; you can, just not where you want it to be.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @03:22PM (1 child)
Yeah lots of them might be able to afford a hut in the Philippines. The commute's a bitch though.
If you're fortunate enough to get one of those 100% Work from Home gigs you just have to put up with the time zone differences and the internet connectivity (if you're not lucky enough)...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @11:59AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:19PM (2 children)
That idea is largely BS. Baby boomers, by far, are the group most likely to travel and be able to afford it comfortably. [thewanderingrv.com]
For the most part, the reason younger people can't afford houses is because, in inflation-adjusted terms, their pay is substantially lower than their elders got for doing the same job, their rents are much higher than their elders paid for living in the same flat, and houses are about 2.5 times the amount their elders paid 50 years ago.
You saved your money and bought a house? Great, good for you. So did I, and I even managed to do it without a mortgage, by my mid-30's. But that was in large part because I was one of the minority of millennials who had significant disposable income after paying for such luxuries as a roof over my head and 2-3 meals a day.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @04:33AM (1 child)
At least in America, we must admit that the main reason for our economic dominance in the 1950s and 60s was that the rest of the world was in ashes from WW2. After they rebuilt, America faced serious economic competition. Plus industrialization of the poor parts of the country was complete by then, and the easy economic gains from that could not be repeated. Feel free to correct me or call me full of beans. I won't be bothered either way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @05:41AM
Don't forget the 70s and 80s. Those were the times when the labor-management relation went super toxic, failing to realize that other parts of the world have caught up to us, fully capable of competing and out-competing us.
We've got nobody to blame but ourselves.