As we move to type 2 charging there is a distinction to be made from 13 amp.
A 30 miles charge in an hour distinction for those in some cars.
So this means that if I arrived at Church Stretton with lbw i could, 45 minutes later, drive home to Telford 22 miles away.
But not if a Mitsubishi Outlander is plugged in with a parking ticket for another 4 hours as happened to me last week. Fortunately I had enough charge. And I was genuinely pleased to see both bays being used....
Had I been needing the charge and the other ev's finished charging but not moved away I would have felt unhappy.
Yes there needs to be more charging infrastructure and there will be.
But if what many of us dream of actually happens and mass adoptiom of ev's happens then there WILL be contention.
And this will need to be managed.
I can see no other way than parking enforcement.
Perhaps we can put off this day by common sense and courtesy, putting ourselves in the other persons shoes when we can.....and if there really is no other choice then fine, plug in at a train station and pick it up when you return.
But sooner or later if a minority fill their boots from a limited resource then we WILL end up with the equivalent of hospital car parking fees....
Or like has happened in Telford this decade where we had free town centre parking....so the office workers left their cars there all day....which led to no spaces free....which led to car park charging to manage the fees...which led to the office workers parking instead at the free train station car park.....which led to the introduction of fees at the train station car park.....
