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You can't fill up your gas tank at home or at work, which is presumably where a significant portion of EV drivers charge their cars.

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There are many, many homes in the UK with no garaging, where cars are parked in non-reserved spaces on the street overnight.

If a significant percentage of cars start to become EVs then spaces where people regularly park overnight will get chargers because it will allow whoever is operating them to make a bit of money selling electricity. You don't have to be making a huge profit margin to make it worth your while to have people passively buying ~200kWh/month of electricity from you.

The same applies to workplaces, especially if solar causes electricity to cost less during daylight hours, and then it becomes convenient to get an EV if there is a charger where you park at night or where you park during the day.

that would depend on the infrastucture cost to install such charging and to maintain it? This is kerbside slow charging presumably overnight. Note that spaces in these residental areas are typically not even marked spaces; the worst outcome might be losing more footpath space to charging infra for road users.

> would depend on the infrastucture cost to install such charging and to maintain it?

The UK runs on 240V. A regular outlet would probably be fine.

Non-fast chargers aren't very big. They can be installed in lampposts, or in lampost-diameter boxes sunk into the pavement (with the socket sticking out at the top)

Lampposts or even curbstone: https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/products/charging-infrastruct...

Yeah, or these ones https://trojan.energy/

About 65% of homes are owned (either outright or via mortgage), but I can't estimate how many of them have garage or off street/driveway parking they can charge their car on.

There's usually very little of the garage space available.

And this is how the typical street looks like: no way to charge at home: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2X6K1R4/typical-english-terraced-h...

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