In my (generally affluent) zone 4 neighborhood in London, the number of green plate EVs had multiplied like rabbits over the past few years, but few houses have off-street parking. A huge percentage of the cars parked on street are EVs.

But since you can plug in to charge at many street lamp posts and since most people don't drive their cars much on a day to day basis, it all works fine even without off-street parking. There are also several reserved medium-speed charging spots around the neighborhood and lots of fast chargers at the local large grocery store.

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quickthrowman 3 days ago | parent [-]

> But since you can plug in to charge at many street lamp posts

Are these the standard UK 230V 13A fused single-phase receptacles? Those put out about twice as much power as a 120V 15A circuit protected by a breaker, 3kW vs 1.5kW

230 * 13 = 2990W

120 * 15 = 1800 * .8 = 1440W

Using those for L1 charging would be a lot better than US L1 charging.

	▲	ageitgey 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, they are 3.5kW - 5kW standard EV chargers. But it's probably easy to install them using the existing power run. But you are right that standard wall charging is much more viable in a 230V system here than in the US. Some people just run a cable from inside to their car if they don't have a 'real' charger yet.