22nd-Jun-24, 05:04 AM
We live right in the middle of an early-1900s stone-built terrace of 16 properties.
Three years ago, I looked into getting an EV for my wife, as most of her car use is local. The car wasn't going to be cheap, plus I was quoted something like £3k to run the cabling from the house to the garage and supply and install the hardware, but I could have lived with that. The whole upstairs of the house would have needed to have the floors up. It's a 120-year-old house - can you guess where this is going...?
When I made enquiries to our electricity supplier, it transpired that because we are in the middle of the terrace, and the whole terrace is on a "looped feed", the whole terrace would need to have major work done on the electricity supply to each individual property. The cost for this was estimated at over £5K per property.
Currently, the nearest public EV charging point to us is 4 miles away from us.
Moving away from internal combustion-engined cars just isn't an option around these parts, and is unlikely to ever be.
Three years ago, I looked into getting an EV for my wife, as most of her car use is local. The car wasn't going to be cheap, plus I was quoted something like £3k to run the cabling from the house to the garage and supply and install the hardware, but I could have lived with that. The whole upstairs of the house would have needed to have the floors up. It's a 120-year-old house - can you guess where this is going...?
When I made enquiries to our electricity supplier, it transpired that because we are in the middle of the terrace, and the whole terrace is on a "looped feed", the whole terrace would need to have major work done on the electricity supply to each individual property. The cost for this was estimated at over £5K per property.
Currently, the nearest public EV charging point to us is 4 miles away from us.
Moving away from internal combustion-engined cars just isn't an option around these parts, and is unlikely to ever be.
Best regards,
Stuart.
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