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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by anomie on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:17PM (#25102767)
The Uk is making decent progress on this already. I live in a London suburb and there’s been a huge rollout of charging points already - within a few hundred meters of my flat there are at least 6 high voltage charging points. There’s also a big rollout of charging points built into existing lampposts - by tapping existing power lines these are very cheap to install. The chargers are run by a few different networks but you pay for usage so it’s quite possible to just sign up to them all and carry 2 or 3 cables.
Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by goatinaboat on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:33PM (#25102939)
The Uk is making decent progress on this already. I live in a London suburb and there’s been a huge rollout of charging points already - within a few hundred meters of my flat there are at least 6 high voltage charging points.

How many people live within a circle of "a few hundred metres" in London? It averages 4700/km^2 across all of Greater London according to Wikipedia, it will be denser in the middle. How many cars is that? TFL says average of 0.3 cars/person. So that would be 1410 cars or 235 per charging point.

Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by hogFeast on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:28PM (#25102890)
London getting that lavish investment once again. The only place near me is a supermarket 15 minutes away.