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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: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday November 23 2021, @03:16PM (2 children)
Because essentially no one owns an electric car, they're going to be a copper thief's dream.
Also expect lots of fires. Its going to be "dodgy" as diodegonewild would say. People who don't own EVs and don't plan to buy one are going to install Chinese crap that unfortunately is uninsulated and burns really well.
On the upside, the climate there is very warm compared to USA, however I imagine there are still "some" visiting trucks from Sweden or whatever that have engine block heaters and I've always thought what with the number of chargers being vastly larger than the number of EVs that "someone" is going to make a block heater adapter that accepts the universal standard EV charger. Also RVs. So ironically there MIGHT be more CO2 emissions from this plan because it'll be too easy to use/steal electricity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:29PM
"So ironically there MIGHT be more CO2 emissions from this plan"
Even if they burn coal and gas for the electricity EVs are still less polluting, and we already see countries investing in wind/solar. "MIGHT", at least the fossil fuel propaganda is fading.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday November 24 2021, @02:50PM
> "unfortunately is uninsulated and burns really well."
Just to note - insulated crap burns really well too. Particularly cladding on the side of buildings (put there to reduce CO2...)