EV-spaghetti

[C24]

Our nephew has an EV car which he parks on the front garden to connect to the charging point on the side of the house.

The rest of the street is mixed housing, mostly terrace houses. At night the street is full of residential cars parked on the road.

As not everyone can park outside their own property, how on earth does the pavement stay clear for pedestrians even if the cables are of sufficient length?

[jimbo]

The above is one more reason EV's are not the answer personal mobility.

Anyway, don't worry there soon won't be enough availability of electricity to plug in the stupid virtue signalling misdirection that are EV's...blackouts this winter here we come, EV's aren't even that "green" Polestar who make the things say they don't break even on CO2 emissions until you do over 60,000 miles in one, based on a comparison with like for like S40 EV v's ICE car
Hydrogen and synthetic fuels along with some plug in EV is a more sensible mix.

[paddyboy]

I’ll be sticking with my nice, torquey, diesel for the foreseeable

[H.A.Bucken]

Terraced houses? Boris didn't think about that one; mine's in a 200 year old cul-d-sac- 50 properties with room for around 22 vehicles. And you can't have conductors draped across the pavements. I'd like to think my next car will have at least one Weber side-draught carb on it! My old Clan had two.
Scenic in the Mist, aka Roger

[raptor9]

Would that be a Clan Crusader???. Loved that car, tho' never had one

[H.A.Bucken]

Aye, 998cc and all. Wish I still had it, but no where to store it in the terrace.
R.

[Condor68]

Couldnt resist dipping into this one cables whether over or across public access are really a Nono unless high enough or buried and they leave you wide open to horrendous fines/costs. Saying this a nice gentleman from Pakistan (and I mean that) was our local newsagent and got one of the first electrics and just plugged it into a socket in the shop laid it across the pavement in the High St and nobody said a thing .Then again we have people who watch where their
feet go,Dont like to think about the technical bits on these early things but it didnt go on fire.

[Condor68]

Should have said on the Webers I had a Hillman Hunter GLS WITH 1758(might have been 1756)Holbay racing engine with Twin Twin choke Weber carbs.Whipped A*** OF Local Traffic poilice Granada 2.8 after they made a stupid claim. 20miles and I was on the sitting on the boot waiting..I do realise they would have questions about a prang even in 1982 .Cost me £150 as a get me about on holiday car when my Viva Magnum blew up on the motorway .Lasted 5 years until the rust got it. Happy days