New builds and EVs
Discussion
Sorry if this has been discussed before. Did search but couldn't find anything.
I'm on the verge of buying an electric vehicle. I am also looking at moving house.
Many new builds at the low to mid price range, properties with 'allocated parking', seem to be completely blind to EVs. While I know not many people have them now I think this figure will soar over the next 10 years or so, and these brand new homes will be completely unsuitable for owners of EVs.
I visited a very nice 4 bed semi which was just being built. However the 'drive' was on the other side of an access road and thus impossible to run power to (unless you could go under the road).
I dont understand why the major builders out there are not considering the EV boom.
I'm on the verge of buying an electric vehicle. I am also looking at moving house.
Many new builds at the low to mid price range, properties with 'allocated parking', seem to be completely blind to EVs. While I know not many people have them now I think this figure will soar over the next 10 years or so, and these brand new homes will be completely unsuitable for owners of EVs.
I visited a very nice 4 bed semi which was just being built. However the 'drive' was on the other side of an access road and thus impossible to run power to (unless you could go under the road).
I dont understand why the major builders out there are not considering the EV boom.
They're slowly moving all the parking spaces as far away from each actual plot so they can subsequently upsell the plots that do have it as having "premium parking" with an associated price 
I'm running an i3 at the mo and i couldn't agree with you more. Even without the EV argument the parking provision/layout of most new estates seems completely bewildering.
I'm running an i3 at the mo and i couldn't agree with you more. Even without the EV argument the parking provision/layout of most new estates seems completely bewildering.
JumboBeef said:
Sorry if this has been discussed before. Did search but couldn't find anything.
I'm on the verge of buying an electric vehicle. I am also looking at moving house.
Many new builds at the low to mid price range, properties with 'allocated parking', seem to be completely blind to EVs. While I know not many people have them now I think this figure will soar over the next 10 years or so, and these brand new homes will be completely unsuitable for owners of EVs.
I visited a very nice 4 bed semi which was just being built. However the 'drive' was on the other side of an access road and thus impossible to run power to (unless you could go under the road).
I dont understand why the major builders out there are not considering the EV boom.
on our estate the minority of people who haven't paid for a house with a driveway elect to ditch it in the street in front of their house anyway and ignore the designated parking. Havent noticed any cables yet but wouldn't be surprised if I see some running across pavements in years to come!I'm on the verge of buying an electric vehicle. I am also looking at moving house.
Many new builds at the low to mid price range, properties with 'allocated parking', seem to be completely blind to EVs. While I know not many people have them now I think this figure will soar over the next 10 years or so, and these brand new homes will be completely unsuitable for owners of EVs.
I visited a very nice 4 bed semi which was just being built. However the 'drive' was on the other side of an access road and thus impossible to run power to (unless you could go under the road).
I dont understand why the major builders out there are not considering the EV boom.
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holes!Let's face it - modern housing estates are appallingly designed overall - I was picking up a colleague who lives in a circa 1960s-70s build house - wide roads, proper driveways, decent front gardens etc. New estate, dodging in and out of cars, no parking, as many houses as possible squeezed in etc.
Some people (some of our friends included) seem to really like new builds. I don't get the attraction!
Some people (some of our friends included) seem to really like new builds. I don't get the attraction!
JumboBeef said:
Craikeybaby said:
The new development where my parents live would be ideal for electric car owners - the cost for garage electricity is split equally between all the properties, even those who don't have garages.
How is that fair?Treated as a management type fee?
At my previous house I was the middle house in a block of three new builds, with a garage at the far side of one of the neighbours driveway. The garage had power and initially I wasn't sure how it was all connected.
Helpfully the builders spilled 2000 litres of diesel into the back garden, so had to dig up all of the contaminated soil, and cut through a thick cable that ran from the back of my house, under the neighbours garden and into my garage. This then caused a fuss with the building regs people (as well as environmental health and many others) who insisted that the cable would have to follow my boundary around the back of the neighbours garden into my garage.
Easier to show in the image below - mine was the house in the middle, so the cable was relaid from the house to the back of the garden, along the pathway, and back into the left side of the double garage.
I'm not sure running a power line under somebody elses land is the answer after my experience.
On the subject of EV charge points though, since the chargepoint subsidy has been cut back, there is no incentive/profit for developers to put these in from new.
Helpfully the builders spilled 2000 litres of diesel into the back garden, so had to dig up all of the contaminated soil, and cut through a thick cable that ran from the back of my house, under the neighbours garden and into my garage. This then caused a fuss with the building regs people (as well as environmental health and many others) who insisted that the cable would have to follow my boundary around the back of the neighbours garden into my garage.
Easier to show in the image below - mine was the house in the middle, so the cable was relaid from the house to the back of the garden, along the pathway, and back into the left side of the double garage.
I'm not sure running a power line under somebody elses land is the answer after my experience.
On the subject of EV charge points though, since the chargepoint subsidy has been cut back, there is no incentive/profit for developers to put these in from new.
S11Steve said:
On the subject of EV charge points though, since the chargepoint subsidy has been cut back, there is no incentive/profit for developers to put these in from new.
I understand that but at least the developers could lay it out in such a way so power could be run to garages and/or parking areas at a later date.Andehh said:
JumboBeef said:
Craikeybaby said:
The new development where my parents live would be ideal for electric car owners - the cost for garage electricity is split equally between all the properties, even those who don't have garages.
How is that fair?Treated as a management type fee?
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