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Yeah so I looked into this little while ago and I own my own house so in theory I can put the box in. The problem is I only have on the street parking and the house is set back away from the road and there’s a garden between the road in the house.

So how the bleeding hell am I supposed to charge a car? I’d have to run a long cable through the garden, over the fence, over the pedestrian walkway, over the grass verge and to the car. Someone is going to trip over it and then think they can sue me.

Or the government could just install a street furniture like they do parking metres, but I have no way to force them to do that.

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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Personally? I’d have an electrician install a standing charger by the curb. I might end up doing that if my wife switches to a plug in hybrid next year.

I’m not sure how that’ll work with the easement though. But that’s future me’s problem.

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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So how the bleeding hell am I supposed to charge a car? I’d have to run a long cable through the garden

Personally I’d replace part of the garden with a driveway and parking space. Sure, it’s ugly. But it’s what billions of people around the world have.

Or the government could just install a street furniture like they do parking metres, but I have no way to force them to do that.

Most governments around the world have a schedule to do that… but often they prioritise daytime parking (as in - when you’re at work, not at home) since those can be charged with solar which is far cheaper than other power sources. Also pilot programs in various cities around the world (kerbside parking already exists in a few places) has proven vandalism is a major problem so it’s best if there’s onsite security who can chase off the occasional dickhead.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Personally I’d replace part of the garden with a driveway and parking space.
  
  Well I don’t really want to have to do that if I can help it because if I did that I wouldn’t really have a garden anymore, but also I don’t think I can anyway because there’s a grass verge and I don’t think I own that, I think the city does, and I would have to pull that up to lay the driveway.
  
  But also if I rented I wouldn’t be able to do any of that anyway so they still need to go the street furniture route. I don’t think vandalisms are particular problem because if they put down load of them they just become common and people would ignore them. Also it’s a housing street, it’s not a random street in the city so the only people around here are people who live around here and vandalising your own stuff seems pretty dumb. I’m sure it’ll happen but I don’t think it’ll be a major problem.
  
  Every shopping mall in my city already has a parking spaces where you can charge an EV.
  
  In my experiences usually some prick with a pickup truck in them. Apparently it’s actually a offence to park in them if you don’t have an electric vehicle, but have yet to see the law enforce. One time I saw a cop parked in one so, there you go.
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    usually some prick with a pickup truck in them
    
    Yes, but like vandalism, the best answer may be ubiquity. The asshole in the truck can’t get a kick out of offending people if they simply ignore him and goto the next chargers
    
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- Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They are planning to put them on streetlamps where i live. That seems like an effective idea.
  
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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Trench for an underground cable, and mount the charger on a pedestal near your car?

I don’t know about other brands but a Tesla charger can whitelist VINs to only charger your vehicle

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