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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...
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(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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(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.