Government falls 'well short' of electric car charger target
A Government target for electric car chargers near motorways has been missed, new analysis has revealed.
The Department for Transport (DfT) had set an ambition for there to be at least six rapid or ultra-rapid chargers offering speeds over 50kWh at every motorway service area in England by the end of 2023.
Fine, sack senior people at the Department for Transport.
But that's not how it works.
Officials are well short of shouldering that kind of responsibility.
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Government falls 'well short' of electric car charger target... and then they wonder why people are not rushing to buy electric vehicles.
I sense a Knighthood or few coming.
Where else is the wonderful Nett Zero, we all drive battery bombs on wheels, we all have homes heated by reverse refridgerators and Smart meters for all, WEF/our wonderful government directives failing.
Look at how busy some motorway services get, especially on certain days of the year. Yeah, I reckon six charging points should be enough. I mean, off on your holidays or visiting relatives at Christmas, kids screaming, spouse in a foul mood, lairy bunch of lads look as if they want to push in, rain pissing down, no proper signs for queueing. Yeah, six is plenty...
AK, This is shamelessly cut and pasted from my post on the BBBC site, but hey - great minds think alike!
"Regarding the fallacies we have to endure about electric cars, our local Tesco has reserved four spaces purely for charging electric vehicles, and it means that normal citizens with normal petrol or diesel cars can’t park there! And they’re the closest to the store, so normal citizens get that much wetter getting to their cars!
Add to this, the reduction of several spaces has been made, so Tesco can operate their delivery vans for ‘click and collect’, so that’s another four spaces gone for a Burton!
I suppose I should be asking Tunbridge Wells Borough Council why they’ve allowed these variations in planning permission for the correct number of parking spaces, but there again, I can’t waste three hours waiting for a snivelling moron to gibber on the phone for ten minutes…
I bet in big urban supermarket stores, the problem is even worse, but as the loony green fanatics want all this crap, it should eventually be a voting issue, but does anyone else see this these days?
I’d ask Beeboid Vitrify, but wouldn’t expect an answer…"
Apols for the length of the post, but it does ring a few bells...
DJ - especially when all petrol and diesel drivers know how quickly they can fill up and be off on the road again instead of having to wander off for a coffee while the car charges up.
Doonhamer - sooner or later Knighthoods may gain a reputation as booby prizes. They can't be far from that now. Becoming King is already a booby prize.
Sam - it would be no surprise to see charging touts at motorway services. They would have a van with a generator in the back - "Charge yer car up for fifty quid mister?"
Scrobs - our local garden centre has just installed charging points. That's quite a few parking spaces gone in a car park which is often too full to park and people queue for a space. Now it will be that bit worse.
Our Waitrose installed 8 (or maybe 10, I couldn't be bothered to count) chargers recently. Sometimes, a couple of them are in use. The rest of us treat the unoccupied ones as normal parking slots. Waitrose don't seem to be in any hurry to stop us. They know we can always take our credit cards to Aldi...
decnine - our local car park has some of them. Virtually never used, people do as you do, they just use them as parking spaces.
I've been meaning to make up a "dummy" lead, park my motorhome in an EV space, and plug the mains input socket (normally used when on a campsite) into the charger! It doesn't matter if it actually works or not...
Dave - that's a good idea, although somebody might ask you about the range you get from your your EV motorhome.
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