Home Charging - Off Peak Only By Default

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"Electric car charging points in people’s homes will be preset to switch off for nine hours each weekday at times of peak demand because ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid.

Under regulations that will come into force in May, new chargers in the home and workplace will be automatically set not to function from 8am to 11am and 4pm to 10pm. Public chargers and rapid chargers, on motorways and A-roads, will be exempt".


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e-car-chargers-...

The article says owners will be able to override the off peak setting. So is this a sensible nudge to encourage off peak charging or the thin end of a wedge to restrict E charging when demand is high? Could the new generation of off peak chargers have the override switch turned off.

Does it not matter because slow charging from a normal socket is always available anyway?