EV Charging with no driveway

Some nice installations there, once you can park your car where you want to it would work well. And permissions of course as you stated.

With OMCs once the board realise their house value could increase with EV charging capabilities some solutions will materialise

I'd be with Ghost on this one. Although you would be possibly liable in case anyone tried to make a claim against you, the key point for me is that you said you live in a quiet cul de sac. You probably know nearly everyone passing by your house. Have a word with your downstream neighbours and discuss whatever solution you planned with them in advance.

Always easier to ask forgiveness than permission too.

Are you sure the response would be the same? The OP was considering an EV. The person who dug up the thread already has one, but is moving house and may lose off street parking. To me, these are different problems. They either have to find a way to charge at the new house, use public charging, or sell their EV….the latter being an issue the OP didn’t have.

That may be the unfortunate reality. We are miles behind our neighbours on this.

Our next door neighbours house is for sale almost a year now and nobody has shown much interest. Wife spoke to the estate agent a couple of weeks ago. She said the lack of driveway has turned off every single viewer. Viewings are down to almost zero and she's not confident of a sale at all.

Just curious. Is it the lack of an actual driveway or the lack of an assigned parking place close to the house?

I've seen new build houses recently that don't have driveways but have assigned parking and are wired for ev charging

In terms of charge arm in Dublin the council asked owners to remove them. There were some already installed. The cables pass over the footpath when in use, but the main risk is done kid swinging off the arm and trying to sue the home owner and or council. The home owners house insurance may or may not cover it. They don't seem that strong and are relatively expensive for a fancy bit of piping.

The new laws may help but I think it's more for commercial providers to roll out multiple on street chargers without the need to have an esb meter for every pillar, and they are now allowed to run their own power cable from one to the next, while up to now ESB networks had to run any power cables under public foothpaths.

In 2024, the share of renewable energy in Ireland's transport sector (RES-T) was 8.6%, up from 7.6% in 2023. The 2030 target for transport is 29%

https://www.seai.ie/about/irelands-energy-targets

I saw on the other thread that BEV sales as a percentage rose from 18% to 21% in 2026 compared to Jan 25. Renewables as a percentage of our electricity generation has flatlined around the 40% mark for the past 3 years.

Offshore wind won't arrive until mid 2030s and the only commercial solar farms that will be delivered by 2030 are those already in the pipeline. The 700MW Celtic interconnector is the main brightness on the horizon.

So incentivising purchase and operation of new BEVs and residential solar are the only tools available to our government to minimise big fines.

I hope the private wire bill enables residents to realise their own charging solutions rather than it being in the control of commercial operators who we've seen from experience will not deliver charging at a price point that encourages care owners to switch from ICE.

Unfortunately for EV owners with no driveway wishing for legislation that will allow private charging outside your house, I have to agree with you on this - the bill seems to be aimed at commercial operators wishing to install on-street chargers.

From the "Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Private Wires General Scheme" :

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environment/publications/private-wires-bill-2025-general-scheme-and-regulatory-impact-analysis/

"The amendments needed for each of the four private wire use cases are:

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• Use Case 3: Facilitation of on-street charging will require authorisation by relevant local authorities and notification to ESB Networks. Kerbo projects will be required to comply with other regulatory requirements such as application for a road opening licence where a wire is expected to cross a public footpath. Supporting guidance and policy may be developed by local authorities."

All this talk of road opening licences and notification of ESB networks does not sound like provision for a simple channel in the footpath for you to bury your cable while you charge your car.

Another problem is that the authorisation has to come from the local authority. For those in Dublin City, the council is decidedly anti-car and believes active travel is the solution to all problems so good luck getting permission for any such infrastructure from them.

Its better than nothing, but it will still mean not being able to charge your car from your own house unless you've a driveway/your own space. What a missed opportunity. I was a BEV owner with no driveway, but lost my patience after 2 years and went back to petrol. Would go back to electric tomorrow if I could charge outside my house.