‘A tax on living greener’: how can Britain make charging EVs cheaper?
‘A tax on living greener’: how can Britain make charging EVs cheaper?
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The high cost and low availability of charging for those without driveways is hindering the UK’s EV economy. Britain’s car owners are split into two tribes: the have-drives and the have-nots. If you have private off-street parking there are very few reasons not to buy an electric car (if you can afford to). The challenge, and one putting a brake on the transition away from polluting fossil fuels, is for motorists who jostle with neighbours to park on the street and access to public EV chargers.
![[Jasper Jolly]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2020/02/24/Jasper_Jolly.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
“There is this real thing about driveway privilege,” says Snigdha Tiruvuru, head of partnerships for Char.gy, an on-street charging company. Cheap home electricity means owners with somewhere to park rarely have to think about charging. They just leave their car plugged in every night (when prices are lowest) and forget about it, like a mobile phone. But for the 9.3m households who do not have their own parking spots, it’s trickier.
I am a member of the second group. Testing electric vehicles – from the very large to the very small – is part of my job reporting on the industry, and that means relying on the public charger network. London is streets ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to access and where I live in Lewisham there’s a fast-growing network, so it has never been a problem for me.
![[A Kerbo Charge employee charging a vehicle with a cable that passes through its pavement cable gully.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/05b5384b619a7287101f52107bfa09be9a534354/0_275_8192_4915/master/8192.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
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