Since EVSE newswire posts do not get many read hits, I queued the UK Gov home EVSE purchase program for later. But because you posted about it, I have bumped it up. See
http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-75-of-home-EVSE-cost-paid-by-the-UK-government-tp4661443.html EVLN: 75% of home EVSE cost paid by the UK government {brucedp.150m.com} - On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 12:35 AM, Martin WINLOW wrote: ... > Meanwhile, here in the UK the G'ment has just announced that it'll take > care of 75% of the cost of installing EVSE in both private and public > domains. For how long is another question but I gather theres a £10m pot > for this. I have to say they do seem quite committed to ushering in the > EV Era but it doesn't appear to be terribly well planned - on a national > basis, at least. > > For example, as far as running the public EVSEs is concerned there are > several regions in the UK each running its own EVSE access scheme (all > using some form of RFID card to open the chargers) and each choosing from > one of about 6 different equipment makers. Until very recently each > scheme was incompatible with the others so that if you lived in one > region and worked in an other (like virtually all the people that commute > into London every day - 2 million?+) you had to be a member of two > schemes - quite possibly three if you also lived near an outer regional > boundary. > > Anyway, as I say, things are moving along apace here, EVly speaking. > With the launch of the Renault Zoe (pronounced 'Zoey', BTW!) in July > it'll be interesting to see how many people actually start buying EVs as > the price barrier will effectively disappear. Added to that is the > launch of the Smart (Mercedes) EVD or whatever they are going to finally > call it. Similar in pricing to the Zoe but somewhat cheaper battery > rental at £50 instead of the Zoe's £70. I'm off to see my Renault dealer > to discuss the Zoe later today and will report my findings - should > anyone be in the remotest bit interested. > > On a related note, I read that New York is going to install some 10k > EVSEs soon. I added a comment to the article suggesting that rather than > install them willy-nilly they offer existing EV owners the option of > having one installed where it would most suit them (within reason). That > way they would encourage EV ownership generally by providing EV owners a > useful facility (as well as a pretty much guaranteed parking space - for > a while at least) as well as having EVs noticeably charging on a street > 'near you'. It would also avoid the otherwise likely scenario of having > loads of empty EV-only parking spaces annoying ICE drivers. �� > > What think the list to this idea? If no-one can think of a reason why it > wouldn't work I might suggest it to my local EVSE organizations as a > general policy when deciding where to put EVSEs in the future. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
