Overnight charging key to unlocking EV market, says report
Nearly 90 per cent of non-EV owners would be encouraged to buy one if they had access to overnight charging, according to a new report.
Commissioned by EV charging provider Connected Kerb, the study found that the ability to slow charge where cars are already parked is a fundamental driver of ownership. The survey – carried out amongst 500 people who were EV owners or interested in EV ownership – revealed that 67 per cent of those who had bought EVs would not have done so if they had to rely on public chargers. But according to Chris Pateman-Jones, CEO of Connected Kerb, the UK government is prioritising rapid charging points over regular charging points that could be used overnight.
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“The relative cost of our kerbside chargers, even in the most expensive scenarios, are a small fraction of the cost of deployment of rapid chargers, which are expensive both because of the charger costs themselves, and also because of the need to upgrade power grid infrastructure,” Pateman-Jones told The Engineer.
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