House with no driveway, on-street parking - what to do?

I wouldn't be a fan of running cable across the path, even with a protector. Solution is to have a charge point/bollard at the kerb-side, or to run a chase channel across the path with galvanised drop in, or hinged trunking. The owner would simply lift the covering when the car needed charging and lay the cable in the channel to the car. No hazards.

Smart approach in Canada

In one of the cases I mentioned about. The owner contacted the developer who still is responsible for the estate and asked about performing work on the path to run a cable underneath for a post charger.

They got told contact the council, council said talk to the developer. Repeat.

The other case also requested something similar from developer and was told it is unlikely to be allowed because in the path in front of their house runs all the fibre cables for their road. So the developer did not want to give permission to allow a channel to be dug in the path to allow a cable to be run for post charger.

Practical solutions need to be found but neither developers or councils are very accommodating at the present. These two cases I know the details of aren't even the most complex as they have designated parking outside their homes but separated by a path. What about all the other new developments where parking is not directly in front of the houses.

I have no interest in an EV for any amount of reasons but the Mrs does and it would suit her driving.

However we are in the same position as many on this thread,end of terrace town house with no designated parking (but I nearly always get the spot outside my house)

It's not possible to install a charger in this situation therefore it's not possible for her to have an EV.Im sure there are hundreds of thousands if not over a million people in a similar situation and I'm glad to see it being talked about.Its the elephant in the room that never seems to get much airtime when the topic of EV comes up.

Home charger isn’t going to work for you unfortunately

I’m a terraced house owner who just bought an EV. I can’t charge at home. Of course I knew this before I bought the car so I was prepared to rely on eCars chargers in Dublin 2 & 8 plus superchargers on longer journeys. It’s not ideal but it works ok for me. I charge to 100% on Sunday afternoons when parking is free around D2. It takes a while to charge at 11kw AC but I just leave it there for a few hours and pick it up later. It’s a minor hassle I’m prepared to put up with for the pleasure of driving a Tesla and living close to the city.

I don't mean to have a go at you specifically, and I understand that Sunday afternoon isn't the busiest times in the world, and that you're paying for the charge.

But IMO public chargers should ideally be left for top ups for people passing through who need it to get home, rather than a full, slow, charge.

Kind of related, but I very often see the PHEVs with tiny batteries taking both charging ports around D2/D4 spaces for hours on end.

IMO, and as a PHEV driver myself, no way should they be allowed use public EV chargers.

The bigger issue with houses without parking is should they be allowed to be stored on public space in the first place. Maybe a parking garage where all of the cars on a particular street, area could be stored and charged would be a better use of public space than rows of cars on narrow streets, on footpaths etc...

Would mean you could effectively remove cars from streets, maybe leave a handful of disabled spaces or for elderly people.

Leaving space for kids, bikes, trees etc..

Radical change but worth looking at.

You're not allowed put your garden shed out on the path but no one bats an eyelid at a car parked there every day

You're probably right, was just thinking in terms of trying to solve on street charging. Maybe we're looking at solutions that just cause more problems and a more radical change is needed.

No worries, I take your point.

At the moment there are 10 22kw AC chargers in walking distance from my house, most of them in the D2 business district. That means they’re not busy at weekends or at night which coincides with the times parking is free and I am likely to use them. So I hope I’m not blocking them when others badly need them, but even if I am I THINK that’s not something I can avoid as a city living EV owner. The answer must be more neighbourhood chargers and more fast chargers for those in urgent need of a top up to get home. ECars faster chargers have a 45 minute limit so they are ideal for anyone in a rush, the trouble is there are very few of them.

My network of streets is beginning to see more EVs now and there are a selection of good spots where lamppost chargers or slow AC chargers could be located. We don’t need personal chargers on our houses, we need to be able to plug into 7kw overnight once every week or ten days. But nobody seems to be listening.

Where there is a will, there is a way..

I found a truly green solution that is available here.

Which is a tiny portion of the overall fuel station market, a smaller portion than the portion of the current EV charging market already provided by the State.

So it’s time for the great free market economy to step up. It would surely be a good opportunity for existing fuel stations,