Electric vehicle? No driveway? No problem

[Bennet]

I saw this yesterday. Presumably it can't be legal, but I love the can-do attitude. Well above head height and causing no issues to anyone.

[768]

Not sure it's illegal, not a lawyer though, what law would it be against? Less sure whether they might be in a bit of trouble in the event it causes injury.

Probably a bit more normal to run it under a cable protector but this seems a pretty neat solution.

[BOR]

I've thought of doing exactly that myself, but using a length of hollow aluminum extrusion, and running the cable through it.

I'll be interested myself to hear if this is legal or not.

[normalbloke]

Do they always get the same parking ‘space’?

[sherman]

Whys there nothing clamping the pole to the post?

[Belle427]

Exactly why EVs will never work.

[MB140]

Excuse my ignorance but what stops someone else just driving into the space when the house owner isn’t there and just plugging their car in to charge for free.

[Bennet]

My assumption is that he un-clips the cable and hides it in the front garden when not in use.

No idea if he ever has trouble getting the same space, but it's not an especially busy road so I could well believe it. I walk my dog that way every day and most cars are in the same spots every time.

[deckster]

MB140 said:

Excuse my ignorance but what stops someone else just driving into the space when the house owner isn’t there and just plugging their car in to charge for free.

At a rough guess:

(a) they take it down when they're not using it
(b) chargers often have a setting where you need to unlock them with an app before they will charge

[sherman]

deckster said:

MB140 said:

Excuse my ignorance but what stops someone else just driving into the space when the house owner isn’t there and just plugging their car in to charge for free.

At a rough guess:

(a) they take it down when they're not using it
(b) chargers often have a setting where you need to unlock them with an app before they will charge

(C) Unplug it/ flip the breaker at the wall in the house. Its just an extension cord at the end of the day.

[motco]

It looks as if the pole is a cantilever arrangement so it can be retracted at will. Clamping it to the street furniture would very probably infringe a by-law.

[SamR380]

Belle427 said:

Exactly why EVs will never work.

It's literally working in that picture.

[FourWheelDrift]

SamR380 said:

Belle427 said:

Exactly why EVs will never work.

It's literally working in that picture.

Not enough lamp posts.

[robbieduncan]

Bennet said:

My assumption is that he un-clips the cable and hides it in the front garden when not in use.

No idea if he ever has trouble getting the same space, but it's not an especially busy road so I could well believe it. I walk my dog that way every day and most cars are in the same spots every time.

Our charger is set to require authentication (by way of either the phone app or a RFID keyfob) so I have no worries about leaving it available out front. Of course someone would have to park on our driveway to use it which is less likely but the peace of mind is nice.

[vikingaero]

Legal/illegal, I like the ingenuity.

The only real problem I can see is a clown kid or drunken yob seeing a monkey bar.

[Dave Hedgehog]

FourWheelDrift said:

SamR380 said:

Belle427 said:

Exactly why EVs will never work.

It's literally working in that picture.

Not enough lamp posts.

core drill for the wall and this then

[normalbloke]

sherman said:

Whys there nothing clamping the pole to the post?

You’ve seen the Father Ted perspective lesson haven’t you….?

[vikingaero]

Dave Hedgehog said:

core drill for the wall and this then

What happens when someone else takes that parking space and leaves their car there for 3-4 days?

[FourWheelDrift]

Dave Hedgehog said:

core drill for the wall and this then

And if you can't park outside your own house, you have park down the road (100ft+ away) or in the next street because that was the only space left?

[Superhoop]

What is the other end plugged in to and where is it.?

I though that EV charge cables had a maximum recommended length of about 25ft (8 metres give or take) and from that pictures it has to be longer that that unless the charging unit is just the other side of the hedge.