Unfortunately certain places in England are not doing as well as Scotland. My entire 25 mile journey to work does not pass a single electric charging point!
I have a neighbour who has a PHEV without off street parking. He runs a cable from his house, through a skylight, and across the pavement. So it’s possible; whether it’s advisable is another matter.
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Hydrogen or E100 or B100 fuel is a easier alternative to electric cars.
E100 and B100 can be sold via existing filling stations and cars ajusted to run on it.
It’s just growing all the crops for it.
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Either that or keeping the existing model of forecourt charging but with rapid chargers which will mean a 5/10 minute stay will give you a good amount of miles. Although this could take 10 years or so to achieve.
If we rolled over all petrol stations to “charging stations” this would easily fill in a lot of the gaps in charging infrastructure
I was talking about right now, today, not the future. They maybe scare stories, it’s just what I’ve read. Obviously in time the network would be upgraded.
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Problem is cost.
A large supermarket or large chain can afford it while a family owned rural station can’t. (margins are tiny on fuel)
Alot of small rural family owned petrol stations disappeared since the 1999 ban on selling in gallons as cost of installing new metric pumps was too high. My nearest station is 7 miles now. (I was born after then but my grandparents have lived in this area from the 1950’s)
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I used to charge my PHEV at home but since buying my EV I have only charged it away from home.
Try the Belfry at Bourne for a "splash and dash” or the Park and Ride as you enter Cambridge for a longer session.
Techs already here. Ten mins on a Tesla supercharger will give you 75 miles range. They reckon the newer model chargers can do that in 5
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What do people do who live in actual cities (not the 'burbs)? On street parking is with a permit and you’re lucky to get a space on the same block as your house let alone immediately outside the front door.
There is nothing that would convince me to live in a house far enough out to have its own driveway. And there must be significantly many people in the same sort of situation as me.
I would say they are forced to wait until charging reaches a level where they fuel their car in the same way now. Pull into a fuel station, plugin for 3 mins like it was petrol/diesel.
Tesla can do 5 minutes to get 75 miles in tests now. I’m sure it’ll get to 5 minutes for 300 miles like ICE within the next decade.
Five years and “affordable” electrics with actual decent range should hopefully exist 
and within ten every forecourt will have petrol and electric pumps (and diesel if you’re lucky)
By that point we’ll all realise we should have gone the hydrogen route.
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Here’s a solution:
I don’t see how they’ll be able to draw the current quick enough to charge like that. Still seems a massive error to rely on recharging batteries rather than swapping them in and out in 30 second instead.
1000 wouldn’t be enough for my parking zone let alone my city and let alone a city as big as London.
That’s how Chinese Tesla (NIO) are doing it!
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Well you have fuel reserves under the forecourt, I assume you would have local on site energy storage that it pulls from rather than directly off the grid.
The key to this new charging station is the use of V3 Superchargers, which were first announced back in March. They require a new 1MW power cabinet, but in return offer a peak rate of 250kW, translating to 1,000 miles per hour or 75 miles of charge in five minutes.
Tesla believes charging times using the V3 Supercharger will fall to around 15 minutes per vehicle, which at peak rates means 225 miles of charge is replenished
So I assume they can keep working on this until they develop a way to take 500kW next in V4 without things melting, and then V5 we might get 5 min re-fills.
But yeah I agree if they had all focused together and made a universal swappable battery that can be safely be extracted and fitted in 30 seconds regardless of vehicle or manufacturer that would have been amazing. 
like going through a car wash on a rail system to drive off the other side with a freshly fully charged battery installed 
, leaving your old to be charged in a rack at that site for the next person.
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I regularly do a 500 mile round trip from Birmingham to Cornwall in a day, a journey that can take 8-10 hours dependant on toilet and tiredness breaks, traffic congestion, etc.
Electric car would never suit me.
Hopefully, I shall expire before the law forces me to try and use one.
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I wonder how you know the requirements of EV users in your area, most users in London are unlikely to need many kWs per week.
In my car I would need to fill up once !
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