Charging without a driveway

I am happy to this post. I have the same issue, I have a pavement between my house and the car, i.e no driveway. Could someone share the contact details of the person/company in Dublin who installs the car charger like above? Thank you.

Firstly the temporary option, I would be worried about a claim, some attempted to get it added to house insurance but they would not cover it. Some suggested CCTV might limit risk.

In terms of physically installing, it can be done, however you need permission from footpath owner, if it's county council it's practically impossible although some in UK got a channel cut with a rain drain with a cover where the cable can be dropped inside.

If residence association they you need approved insured contactor. The biggest hurdle is getting the thumbs up from management company. They are worried about a claim hitting them. What is upside for them? Often they only meet one time a year. Typically they just say no by default. In order to get a yes, you need a full insured plan where you will take care of everything and bring a complete project for approval, and there is no risk to management company if a claim or downside. If you just fire off a random email don't expect the result to be positive. Costs are often 3000+ and you may not get grant, but may get grant possibly by accident.

Some people have continued to drive a petrol or diesel until they live somewhere with a charger. Come 2030 assuming they don't do a policy change, you can still buy 1 year old petrol and diesel cars.

Some have moved house.

In reality you have already got a no changing that to a yes will be very difficult. Insurance is often just an excuse to not try. With the council taking over it may be more difficult but over time the rules and liability may change. They might decide to install chargers in all spots some day.

In my case I bought the car already :( Management company is unhelpful.

Thanks.

There is no shame in switching cars if it does not suit your use case. In the future all parking spaces may have chargers, but for now pick the mode of transport that makes sense. Some people with very large battery EVs with local 50+kW chargers charge for 20 to 40 minutes a week which covers them. It's ideal if you have a 50+kW charger at your local Tesco or lidl, or workplace charging, but the risk is when you need it someone else is using it.

Your not really. Unless there is an insurance policy in place no solicitor will take a case. As there won’t be a pool of money to kay out from.

I have a driveway but barely charge at home. Im doing about 13K a year since got a leaf and dealing with the changes as a result of covid when means i'm doing less than what i was pre covid where i would have been doing about 18k.

• Avail of city center parking where you only pay for electricity ( cheaper than paying for parking , apparently doesn't apply in come councils eg: dublin)
• shopping centers where there is free charging.
• the rare trip to the office where there is free charging.

As a result my fuel cost is pretty much non-existent. This scenario won't apply to everyone obviously so just look at your circumstances and see where you can charge for free and importantly is it feasible..... that doing such tasks doesn't put you out of your way.

I didn't have a driveway, i wouldn't be impacted by much.... there is still the issue of dealing with long journeys where when i leave i would like to be 100% so that's where plugging in at home comes in handy.

Interesting indeed - if it'll add an extra 50km to an EV, it would be nice as a top-up (an EV equivalent of a Jerry can, if you will)

It's handy that it's portable. My only concern with it being portable, is that it's portable and looks like it could be easily nicked. I wonder what anti-theft protection they have on it.

I can't help wondering, if/when ICE cars are no longer allowed (which seems to be the intention in the medium term), what are they going to do with all the people like me who live in houses with no driveway, and free-for-all parking on the public road?? There must be thousands of us!

I also have no way of charging a car at work.

They're hardly going to install chargers at every parking space in the city...

Boggles the mind how local councils are allowed to continue forcing estates to have parking spaces knowing the issue around charging already exists. I live in an SDZ and it's been brought up by councilors as far back as 3 years ago, although planning rules are from 2014 I believe.

Maybe they'll follow the Japanese approach, where you have to have your own storage space for your vehicle before you buy it, so no using public space to subsidise your transport choices?

Beware 50kW chargers can be busy at peak morning evening times with 2 or more cars queuing. Sometimes it can take 1 hour plus queuing before you start charging, and sometimes they become broken and are not fixed for 1 year+. Personally I would not recommend it. If you had workplace charging it would be ok, but depending on mileage and car you may need to charge multiple times per week.

We live in a terraced house but our door is right beside the shared parking space.

I have installed a charging point outside our front door and run a cable up the path which we own. The cable has to traverse a few inches of shared space. Maximum a foot between our path and the car. Which I know is a grey area. The cable is detachable so it is not lying around as a trip hazard.

Hi All, only came across this post recently and wondered has anyone had luck installing charger cable through footpath where footpath owned by management company? I'm in a similar situation where my house has a common footpath running in front of my entrance and between my property and the parking space with management company refusing to respond positively on installing an ev charger.

A number of people in my estate and the surrounding ones have installed under the footpath, not sure what conoani they used but nobody asked for permission, better to ask for forgiveness. Estates are pending handover with the local council.

Once handed over the council are in charge of the footpaths and they seem reluctant for approving things for new estates after they're built.