Electric vehicle chargers to become compulsory in new homes in England
With a ban on new petrol cars less than a decade away, England must expand its charging infrastructure network by almost 2000 per cent.

Drive- Canberra Times.
15 September 2021

Electric vehicle chargers are set to become compulsory in every new home and office built in England.   

Legislation tendered this week by the sitting government will require 'smart' chargers – which take advantage of off-peak periods of electricity production – to be installed in all new buildings with parking spaces, as part of a wider push to ease pressure on existing public infrastructure.

A spokesperson for MP Rachel Maclean – who announced the bill – told Drive: “We plan to support people to charge their cars at home by ensuring new homes are electric vehicle ready. We have consulted on plans to introduce a requirement for every new home to have a charge point, where there is an associated car parking space … We aim to lay regulation in Parliament in 2021.


“This would make England the first country to introduce mandatory charge points in new homes, cementing its position as a global leader in the race to net zero emissions.   

“Already, we’re investing £2.8 billion [$AU5.26 billion] in helping industry and drivers make the switch – and will continue our work to install thousands of charge points and boost the development of new technologies to meet our goals.”

The United Kingdom – which has vowed to ban the sale of new petrol-only, non-hybrid cars in 2030, and hybrids in 2035 – currently has approximately 25,600 public charging points.


However, that figure will need to increase almost twenty-fold (to 480,000) before the end of the decade to accommodate for projected electric vehicle uptake, according to a new report from the nation’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The legislation is likely to pass through both houses of parliament, however could be amended during a consultation phase. It will not impact Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, nor will it be retrospective, meaning existing homes won’t need to be retrofitted.

whiteknight wrote on Sep 18^th, 2021 at 9:36am:


What about those homes with no off street parking?

And in other news GM's EV Bolt, which was recently subject to recalls because of battery faults, have said they should be parked 50 feet from other vehicles.

As most English travel less than 100 k to go anywhere, they really don't need range.

But the idiots in Australia can't get that simple fact that travel in Europe and travel in Australia are vastly different.

When you drive around England or Europe, you pass though village after village in a short 50 k journey.
The people in the motels we stayed in couldn't believe we were driving 70 to 100k every day to visit various villages.

In Australia, many people drive more than 160k a day just to and from work.
We drive hundreds, even thousands of k to go on holidays.
The annual migration to the snowy alone sees people driving from Sydney and as far afield as Brisbane.

Electric vehicles would be totally useless in Australia.
Except for city dwellers.
Their 5 to 10 k a day travel would fit perfectly into the EV envelope.
And because the greenies, yuppies and troglodyte city dwellers seem to have the useless politicians ears, they will get their stupid little bumper car toys.

God help the rest of Australia.
Hopefully, when ICE vehicles are banned, fresh food will only be available in country areas.
And city troglodytes will be eating week or month old food.
Serves them right.

And in the UK and Europe generally they are having a hard time because there has been a a lack of wind. They have had to resort to reopening coal plant. How green is that?

whiteknight wrote on Oct 15^th, 2021 at 12:44pm:


Wow.....300kms with a nice new battery
As the battery ages, 250? 200? 150 maybe????

Now, Grafton is over 500kms from where I live.
So I'd have run out of charge half way to visit the parents.

Or Sydney to the gold coast, over 800 Kim
Couple of stop overs here to recharge.

Or a simple return trip to Sydney from Wyong to visit relatives.
200 Kim, stop start traffic.
Pretty hard when the old batteries are not working like new, playing the battery lottery.

EV cars are an expensive, worthless joke.
After just a few years the batteries just will not hold a full charge.
The distances quoted are ideal with new batteries.
What about night driving, lights use quite a bit
Air con, oops, that's gonna hurt.

We currently do not have the technology to introduce EV at this time.
But for the greenies and city troglodytes who rarely move more than a few Klm from home, it's a wonderful green solution.
Except it isn't.
1) they will need to be charged, we are already suffering electrical systems overload.
They are saying that air conditioners may have to be turned off because they cannot cope.
Imagine extra load required to charge Evs, we will need more coal powered power stations or the EVs will be expensive garden ornaments.

2) the batteries themselves are ticking time bombs.
The current technology requires massive mining and processing expenses and environmental damage, and when they finally die, the cost ( both in a monetary and environmental perspective) will be mind numbing.
These batteries are seriously toxic, next, next stuff. Polluting the land and groundwater.
Not in the city of course, so it won't matter.

3) EV cars are bombs in the truest sense.
Prone to catching fire, putting them out is quite an exercise in logistics.
Not one fire station in Australia has the chemicals required to put them out one alight.
( oh, and said chemicles are toxic and very environmentally unfriendly)
The orders are " let them burn and keep soaking surrounds with water to reduce damage"
The water will wash more toxic chemicals into the drains and eventually the ocean, environmentally sound eh?
To say nothing about the toxic smoke and fumes.....sounds good eh?
And imagine one of these time bombs setting itself alight in an underground car park.
Won't that be fun?
Entire shopping centres and building evacuated to get away from the fumes while the car gradually burns out.

Yep, EVs are the way to go........NOT.