This is so exciting to hear. We live in an apartment building in Eindhoven and our landlord told us there was no plan to install EV chargers in the underground car park because of the different stakeholders, but I've always thought that was nonsense. We have dedicated parking spaces that are covered by a lease separate from our residence lease. So the parking spot is already linked to our name AND our bank account for rent deductions. There are storage spaces for each parking space, and those storage spaces have lights. So why can't we put a Zappi in the storage space? Why can't we have chargers linked to our parking spaces? Of course we can. And here in the Netherlands, I know it's just a matter of time until we get an email telling us we have to park elsewhere for a week while they "upgrade the infrastructure". This podcast made me feel like it may be coming sooner than I thought. Loved seeing you in Amsterdam on Saturday! We''re now looking at a Carice!
One of the great joys of driving an EV for me is that I can drive past a petrol station and not have to wave goodbye to a £20 pound note. I never come close to spending than much on a charge.
Yes! Yes! Yes! This was a fantastic discussion and addresses a critical need. I can see this really taking off as renewable cause energy prices fluctuations too. Then with V2L it will be fantastic when people see EV cars as a source of power and a source of income, not just as a means of transportation.
Great interview with Effie. The smart integration with solar edge on large buildings as well as future V2G will make EVs a no brainer for people looking to get a new car.
Alas no. It all depends on location, location location. There are places in UK where seeing the Sun is cause for alarm. The local news outlets put out reassuring broadcasts that the Sun is a purely natural "thing" and nothing to be frightened of. Seriously.
I live in an Apartment block, and we have repeatedly asked our landlord to install an EV charge point or set of points in our Apartment blocks carpark (with the usual "Just think, you can advertise this" or "This will be required soon anyway" etc), but they keep saying "there just aren't enough residents that use an EV"... well yes... because there is no charging infrastructure... So annoying. They will NOT allow us to put in a charger, even though they would not have to pay for it as my wife is entitled to a free charge point due to being disabled. It is very annoying. We are forced to use the public charging network here, which is not great in Northern Ireland (yet, they are slowly getting better).
What we have found here in Canada is that buildings from the 70's were built with incandescent lightbulbs and old inefficient appliances in mind. These buildings then have plenty of spare capacity that can charge all vehicles with the use of a charging management system.
Another subject to cover is the best way to charge if the pavement is between the car and the house.. I've seen one overhead arm device that swings over the pavement with the cable, and another one has a channel cut in the pavement to accept the cable...
If your council does not stupidly push back to prevent either of these solutions so that they can milk you by partnering with a charger provider and provide you with both the charger and THEIR electricity tariff… 😤
Yes. A cantilever is the first thing my electrician suggested, because he's been fitting them to terraced houses, some of which have a small front space of a metre or two before the footpath. I suggested the covered channel, but apparently our local council is not interested in doing that, even though there are grants available to cover the costs. 🤷♂ They're still stuck in a 20th Century time warp. 🤦🏼♂
Robert, thank you for asking that qui. Thought she was German or from the lower ends. God bless you, Robert. PS kindness and still free the Highlander.😊
Absolutely great podcast. I really hope they succeed in the things they are doing, it's really important to make charging easy and accessible for as many people as possible. In the end it should come down to "if you can park your car you can charge it". The tech is there, it needs deploying.
Some great info to use in the on-going discussion concerning electrification for EV transport. Wow, get PAID to charge?! -that's cra cra Effie is a joy to listen to, thanks for having her on Mr. L.
We're in a terraced house with no off-street parking, and no designated parking space, but that doesn't stop us from recharging at home. We've done that since early 2021. Use a little lateral thinking, and you might find that you can do the same, safely and legally, and at very low cost. Everyone's circumstances are different, but talking nicely to your local council might yield surprising results.
Spot on Robert. The fooks that can must. Others will follow as system is built out. This is no different than any other society level technological leap. Steam pump first invented in 1690 it wasn't until 80 years later that they were widespread. Electrification in America took 60+ years as did telephone. Automobile 50 years. The folks first to use these devices were wealthy. Government unwrote much of initial infrastructure needs.
If we can have a smart meter in our homes With our utility provider. Why can't we have a smart meter in our Electric cars and be charged for the electricity we use through our own utility provider. Obviously, you would have to sign up for the right tariff.
Mad that in a shared building, each separate unit pays standard fixed energy charges!! Same for the Internet!! Why cannot we pool together for better deals from these service providers???
Unfortunately "platform" usually implies rent-seeking. My apartment block was offered something like this, and everyone would be charged AU$200/yr in "licencing fees" to the platform owner.
I take it you don't get out much, then. I further deduce you attended an all boys school ... aha ... and the school was a comprehensive, of course it was, how could it not. Elementary. No, really, it was an elementary deduction.
I found the podcast very interesting & at various stages in it, the same question kept on running through my mind which was. Is the WeVo system bidirectional or setup to eventually be bidirectional ie vehicle to grid / load?
Not to be critical but it was frustrating to start the show listening to her offer only buzzwords of some kind of smart charging overlay to make it work with no actual explanation of the underlying principle. And even though you said she will explain better then you, finally you had to come out at 11:00 and actual explain the concept for her as being a time of charge and load balancing protocol. Thank you
for easy connection, government's gonna have to mandate that the manufacturers use multiple protocols, their own and a common one, they could use their own and charge faster or something artificial, apple does it and makes bank.
Naysayers are constantly bringing up the subjects of having no off-road parking and living in a tower block. It's one of their longest standing desperation arguments. There is absolutely NO effect on EV ownership if you have no driveway or live in a tower block. As per always these trolls never apply this argument to ICE vehicles. I always point out that unlike ICE vehicle owners, EV owners can charge at home. Even if you have no off-road parking and no dedicated charger you can still run a granny lead out to the pavement outside your house. There are never usually parking restrictions overnight so that's not an issue. But of course the argument is reduced to nonsense immediately if you ask naysayers to state categorically that no petrol, diesel or even hydrogen car driver lives in a flat or a house with no off-road parking. Of course they do. They ALL have to drive SOMEWHERE ELSE to get their fuel. You can't have a petrol station at your house, you can't put a diesel pump in a street lamp, you can't generate combustible liquid from a solar panel or a wind turbine. Here comes an eye rolling emoji. 🙄
Robert, agree that having even slow chargers widely available would help speed EV adoption. Better and more affordable home and small business scale batteries would also help speed electrification. And, small businesses owners need inexpensive charging stations that simply and directly bill the person charging their cars.
They're building new houses around Lincolnshire, complete with home recharging points @@lua-nya It costs very little extra to do that during construction. I don't know many people who have the finances for an EV plus a brand new house, but those houses are selling, otherwise the builders would not be interested in adding that basic refinement.
Felt so comfy to hear so many of my own stories told: Living as tenent, with no 3-phases (11 kW) charging possible / allowed, only my standard, 1-phased plug. But it just workes well, especially since i do have a 3 kWp offgrid PV on my landlords roof, plus free charging at my company. Charging at home is just the most flexible and rewarding thing at all, power ranging from under 1 kW up to 2.3, using excess energy from my home batteries only. Just love it. 🥰
I can only imagine how much work is involved with all of your endeavors. Sadly as the world currently is, there is still too much money to be made over fossil fuels. Please accept my sincere appreciation for your time, effort and dedication.
Once the fossil fuel industry realise how much more money is to be made from renewable energy they will stop pretending and make genuine changes. We then have to watch that they don't make artificial price hikes as they do now. It will be harder because we can potentially all generate electricity at home. They can't monoplise it as a fuel in the same way as petrol, diesel and hydrogen.
The panels in the supermarket car parks in France, shade your car from the sun too, which is a much appreciated bonus. This is only a concern in the UK for about 4 days a decade, but with global warming, it could be 4 days a year.
I Recently went to a seaside Holiday Resort in uk and they had a car park covered in solar Panels with EV Cargers underneath I did noticed one of the Solar Panels the control gear had burned out!
@@t1n4444 Technical stuff occasionally breaks down - and gets replaced or fixed. Not really a big concern. And losing one solar panel controller out of an array of many of them isn't going to make much difference either.
@@t1n4444 Depends on whether you're setup with single inverters or micro-inverters (which is how my own solar is done). So yes, if you have a single big inverter on the array then when panel goes phut then the array is u/s until replaced or bypassed. FWIW my tiny array of seven panels has run reliably for the last 14 years. Solar panel failure must be pretty rare I would guess - but I have seen no stats from any source on what the failure rate actually is.
@@neilcunningham1081 Ah. My system is designed to charge a 12V bank with a controller per panel. (With MTTP monitor unit per controller.) Thus shadows or bird guano doesn't bring down o/p. Lighting is per 12V LED units. Battery bank feeds single inverter. Don't use tumble drier as that would cane inverter and batteries. Mind you that said my Epever controllers have never played up in six years. Changed the battery bank a few months ago and that definitely helped ... battery bank now stays above the "magical" 12.6V overnight.
I travelled to Europe and rented an EV there, and had a lot of trouble trying to use various charger networks with my phone. Phone apps were simply unavailable "in my region", though I wasn't in my region. Why can't we just pay for charging the same way petrol car drivers pay for petrol, or the way we pay for a snack out of a vending machine or for a meal, by tapping a credit card or -- heaven forbid -- handing over cash?
@@JonathanMaddox oh, i remember. That was the stuff we used right back at the beginning of this century, when we adopted the Euro. I haven't seen one of those for a long time, did you buy them in an antique shop, or can you still get them from a bank?
@@t1n4444 No, not a battery bank. Here's a fun fact for you, banks is where the word was taken from, to use for the storage of electricity. They were exactly the same as batteries for electricity but with money. You put money in them, when you have loads of it and take it out later, when you needed it. They even had the same problem as battery banks, even if you didn't take money out, it somehow dwindled down to nothing if you didn't keep topping it up.
Ive had an EV for four years. Number one benefit, not having to go into a dirty stinking fuel station and put on PPE so that I can get smelly diesel into my car. I love it.
What a load of bull you haven't addressed the fact most people in flats only have access to on street parking and would only be able to use public chargers they have put lampposts with chargers but EVs can't be left overnight connected to theses you seem to live in a world that is not in a city I can count on on hand the homes that could have a home charger in my area
@@t1n4444 No, it's just an observation of a fact - and something that all of us have experienced at some time. If you have your own offroad parking (as 60% have in the UK) then re-'fuelling' your vehicle overnight from the grid is much more convenient than driving somewhere to have it done for you. If you haven't got access to that then the chance is increasingly that your destination (shops, workplace, travel destination) will have a charger.
@@neilcunningham1081 You might want to re-research those facts too. In any event it's not really relevant. Will presume you're aware of the proposed hydrogen refueling network in Germany? And thence across Europe. Rishi wants UK to be "up there" ref car manufacturing so he'll have to consider going down the hydrogen car route. You might womder just how long it would take to not only install home chargers but upgrade the size of incomers to older properties. I would suggest most battery EV owners wouldn't be entirely happy being on an overnight trickle charge. You might factor in also that electricity is going to be the current "imposed" fuel supply (admire or ignore supposed pun as you wish) and the domestic draw for heating/cooking would take priority. Solar and wind farms take time to obtain planning, as do mega battery sites so a bit of an issue there too. Now we read that some battery storage systems will, can and have experienced fires. We read too that even as we type the marine transport industry is discussing the topic of battery EVs catching fire on car transporter vessels. Not only does such an event damage a vessel it seems the gases emitted find their way into the marine environment. The concern is that the cost of reparations to the marine environmental agencies will not be cheap ... neither would the cost of fighting a dispute through the courts. BP know this from not so distant experience. BP were well and truly rinsed as you might recall. Naturally I support the evolution of hydrogen power and would prefer batteries to simply go away in favour of burning hydrogen gas In a suitably modified ICE, or used to be used in fuel cells.
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This is so exciting to hear. We live in an apartment building in Eindhoven and our landlord told us there was no plan to install EV chargers in the underground car park because of the different stakeholders, but I've always thought that was nonsense. We have dedicated parking spaces that are covered by a lease separate from our residence lease. So the parking spot is already linked to our name AND our bank account for rent deductions. There are storage spaces for each parking space, and those storage spaces have lights. So why can't we put a Zappi in the storage space? Why can't we have chargers linked to our parking spaces? Of course we can. And here in the Netherlands, I know it's just a matter of time until we get an email telling us we have to park elsewhere for a week while they "upgrade the infrastructure". This podcast made me feel like it may be coming sooner than I thought. Loved seeing you in Amsterdam on Saturday! We''re now looking at a Carice!
My mum loves that she never has to wait in a queue at a petrol station with her EV, Suns out better plug it in
😂😂😂😂
What a silly comment.
It all depends where someone lives.
One of the great joys of driving an EV for me is that I can drive past a petrol station and not have to wave goodbye to a £20 pound note. I never come close to spending than much on a charge.
@@trevorberridge6079
Yet another silly smug comment.
To repeat, it all depends where you are.
@@trevorberridge6079absolutely 😂👏🏻
@@t1n4444 If facts are smug then call me Smuggy McSmugface.
Yes! Yes! Yes! This was a fantastic discussion and addresses a critical need. I can see this really taking off as renewable cause energy prices fluctuations too.
Then with V2L it will be fantastic when people see EV cars as a source of power and a source of income, not just as a means of transportation.
Great interview with Effie. The smart integration with solar edge on large buildings as well as future V2G will make EVs a no brainer for people looking to get a new car.
Alas no.
It all depends on location, location location.
There are places in UK where seeing the Sun is cause for alarm.
The local news outlets put out reassuring broadcasts that the Sun is a purely natural "thing" and nothing to be frightened of.
Seriously.
I live in an Apartment block, and we have repeatedly asked our landlord to install an EV charge point or set of points in our Apartment blocks carpark (with the usual "Just think, you can advertise this" or "This will be required soon anyway" etc), but they keep saying "there just aren't enough residents that use an EV"... well yes... because there is no charging infrastructure... So annoying. They will NOT allow us to put in a charger, even though they would not have to pay for it as my wife is entitled to a free charge point due to being disabled. It is very annoying. We are forced to use the public charging network here, which is not great in Northern Ireland (yet, they are slowly getting better).
Excellent discussion, we are proud of you Effie!
What we have found here in Canada is that buildings from the 70's were built with incandescent lightbulbs and old inefficient appliances in mind. These buildings then have plenty of spare capacity that can charge all vehicles with the use of a charging management system.
Another subject to cover is the best way to charge if the pavement is between the car and the house.. I've seen one overhead arm device that swings over the pavement with the cable, and another one has a channel cut in the pavement to accept the cable...
If your council does not stupidly push back to prevent either of these solutions so that they can milk you by partnering with a charger provider and provide you with both the charger and THEIR electricity tariff… 😤
Yes. A cantilever is the first thing my electrician suggested, because he's been fitting them to terraced houses, some of which have a small front space of a metre or two before the footpath. I suggested the covered channel, but apparently our local council is not interested in doing that, even though there are grants available to cover the costs. 🤷♂ They're still stuck in a 20th Century time warp. 🤦🏼♂
Robert, thank you for asking that qui. Thought she was German or from the lower ends. God bless you, Robert. PS kindness and still free the Highlander.😊
"Excellent interview Robert and Effie........good luck with Wevo and Solar Edge....these are exciting new times...."😎👍🧲
Absolutely great podcast. I really hope they succeed in the things they are doing, it's really important to make charging easy and accessible for as many people as possible. In the end it should come down to "if you can park your car you can charge it". The tech is there, it needs deploying.
Some great info to use in the on-going discussion concerning electrification for EV transport.
Wow, get PAID to charge?! -that's cra cra
Effie is a joy to listen to, thanks for having her on Mr. L.
We're in a terraced house with no off-street parking, and no designated parking space, but that doesn't stop us from recharging at home. We've done that since early 2021. Use a little lateral thinking, and you might find that you can do the same, safely and legally, and at very low cost. Everyone's circumstances are different, but talking nicely to your local council might yield surprising results.
I have an EV live in a flat and don’t have any parking. These ideas sound so good.
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
Spot on Robert. The fooks that can must. Others will follow as system is built out. This is no different than any other society level technological leap. Steam pump first invented in 1690 it wasn't until 80 years later that they were widespread. Electrification in America took 60+ years as did telephone. Automobile 50 years. The folks first to use these devices were wealthy. Government unwrote much of initial infrastructure needs.
If we can have a smart meter in our homes With our utility provider. Why can't we have a smart meter in our Electric cars and be charged for the electricity we use through our own utility provider. Obviously, you would have to sign up for the right tariff.
Mad that in a shared building, each separate unit pays standard fixed energy charges!! Same for the Internet!! Why cannot we pool together for better deals from these service providers???
Unfortunately "platform" usually implies rent-seeking. My apartment block was offered something like this, and everyone would be charged AU$200/yr in "licencing fees" to the platform owner.
An ultra sharp young lady with huge vocabulary, loaded with industry related nomenclature, very enjoyable
I take it you don't get out much, then.
I further deduce you attended an all boys school ... aha ... and the school was a comprehensive, of course it was, how could it not.
Elementary.
No, really, it was an elementary deduction.
Kind of easy to set off aren’t you
I had to laugh when she said there are affordable EVs. We have very different understandings of what is affordable.
no doubt, but what's new in the world...
I found the podcast very interesting & at various stages in it, the same question kept on running through my mind which was. Is the WeVo system bidirectional or setup to eventually be bidirectional ie vehicle to grid / load?
Not to be critical but it was frustrating to start the show listening to her offer only buzzwords of some kind of smart charging overlay to make it work with no actual explanation of the underlying principle. And even though you said she will explain better then you, finally you had to come out at 11:00 and actual explain the concept for her as being a time of charge and load balancing protocol. Thank you
Robert your camera mount is bouncing when your head moves on the introduction.
Great show Robert & Effie
for easy connection, government's gonna have to mandate that the manufacturers use multiple protocols, their own and a common one, they could use their own and charge faster or something artificial, apple does it and makes bank.
Effie gets me charged up about this important issue!
Naysayers are constantly bringing up the subjects of having no off-road parking and living in a tower block. It's one of their longest standing desperation arguments. There is absolutely NO effect on EV ownership if you have no driveway or live in a tower block. As per always these trolls never apply this argument to ICE vehicles. I always point out that unlike ICE vehicle owners, EV owners can charge at home. Even if you have no off-road parking and no dedicated charger you can still run a granny lead out to the pavement outside your house. There are never usually parking restrictions overnight so that's not an issue. But of course the argument is reduced to nonsense immediately if you ask naysayers to state categorically that no petrol, diesel or even hydrogen car driver lives in a flat or a house with no off-road parking. Of course they do. They ALL have to drive SOMEWHERE ELSE to get their fuel. You can't have a petrol station at your house, you can't put a diesel pump in a street lamp, you can't generate combustible liquid from a solar panel or a wind turbine. Here comes an eye rolling emoji. 🙄
😂😂😂😂😂
What utter nonsense you type.
I'm going to presume you're an MP.
Interesting chat. Bit of an infomercial.
Robert, agree that having even slow chargers widely available would help speed EV adoption. Better and more affordable home and small business scale batteries would also help speed electrification. And, small businesses owners need inexpensive charging stations that simply and directly bill the person charging their cars.
Level 2 charge points with integrated load balancing and billing is the way forward for businesses with public parking. Should be cheap enough soon.
They're building new houses around Lincolnshire, complete with home recharging points @@lua-nya It costs very little extra to do that during construction. I don't know many people who have the finances for an EV plus a brand new house, but those houses are selling, otherwise the builders would not be interested in adding that basic refinement.
Kindness is always free the highlander.😊
Beautiful
Felt so comfy to hear so many of my own stories told:
Living as tenent, with no 3-phases (11 kW) charging possible / allowed, only my standard, 1-phased plug. But it just workes well, especially since i do have a 3 kWp offgrid PV on my landlords roof, plus free charging at my company. Charging at home is just the most flexible and rewarding thing at all, power ranging from under 1 kW up to 2.3, using excess energy from my home batteries only. Just love it. 🥰
I can only imagine how much work is involved with all of your endeavors. Sadly as the world currently is, there is still too much money to be made over fossil fuels. Please accept my sincere appreciation for your time, effort and dedication.
Maybe in some places for a short while, but the smart money is on a renewable electric future!
Once the fossil fuel industry realise how much more money is to be made from renewable energy they will stop pretending and make genuine changes. We then have to watch that they don't make artificial price hikes as they do now. It will be harder because we can potentially all generate electricity at home. They can't monoplise it as a fuel in the same way as petrol, diesel and hydrogen.
The panels in the supermarket car parks in France, shade your car from the sun too, which is a much appreciated bonus.
This is only a concern in the UK for about 4 days a decade, but with global warming, it could be 4 days a year.
I listened for 23 minutes and I never was clear what her company did. I finally gave up and moved on.
I want to put a water turbine in my water pipe at home to trickle charge my battery!as well as solar ! Is it possible?🤔
Oh, I was guessing Dutch.
I Recently went to a seaside Holiday Resort in uk and they had a car park covered in solar Panels with EV Cargers underneath I did noticed one of the Solar Panels the control gear had burned out!
An excellent point!
If one unit can burn out then they all can.
Logic or wot!!!
@@t1n4444 Technical stuff occasionally breaks down - and gets replaced or fixed. Not really a big concern. And losing one solar panel controller out of an array of many of them isn't going to make much difference either.
@@neilcunningham1081
Hmm ... are you sure you've got your facts right?
Might I suggest you re-research those points.
@@t1n4444 Depends on whether you're setup with single inverters or micro-inverters (which is how my own solar is done). So yes, if you have a single big inverter on the array then when panel goes phut then the array is u/s until replaced or bypassed. FWIW my tiny array of seven panels has run reliably for the last 14 years. Solar panel failure must be pretty rare I would guess - but I have seen no stats from any source on what the failure rate actually is.
@@neilcunningham1081
Ah. My system is designed to charge a 12V bank with a controller per panel. (With MTTP monitor unit per controller.) Thus shadows or bird guano doesn't bring down o/p.
Lighting is per 12V LED units.
Battery bank feeds single inverter.
Don't use tumble drier as that would cane inverter and batteries.
Mind you that said my Epever controllers have never played up in six years.
Changed the battery bank a few months ago and that definitely helped ... battery bank now stays above the "magical" 12.6V overnight.
Robert, don't lean on the desk mounted to the camera. Happens a lot and I can't watch.
I travelled to Europe and rented an EV there, and had a lot of trouble trying to use various charger networks with my phone. Phone apps were simply unavailable "in my region", though I wasn't in my region.
Why can't we just pay for charging the same way petrol car drivers pay for petrol, or the way we pay for a snack out of a vending machine or for a meal, by tapping a credit card or -- heaven forbid -- handing over cash?
Cash?
What's that, is it an American thing?
No idea, never been to America. I bought some cash in Europe that had "Euro" written on it, maybe it's a European thing?
@@JonathanMaddox oh, i remember. That was the stuff we used right back at the beginning of this century, when we adopted the Euro.
I haven't seen one of those for a long time, did you buy them in an antique shop, or can you still get them from a bank?
@@robinhood4640
What's a "bank"? You don't mean a battery bank, surely?
@@t1n4444 No, not a battery bank.
Here's a fun fact for you, banks is where the word was taken from, to use for the storage of electricity.
They were exactly the same as batteries for electricity but with money.
You put money in them, when you have loads of it and take it out later, when you needed it.
They even had the same problem as battery banks, even if you didn't take money out, it somehow dwindled down to nothing if you didn't keep topping it up.
Robert, please fix your camera from shaking every time you move or talk it's so annoying watching it jumping and flickering all over the screen 😖😖
Ive had an EV for four years. Number one benefit, not having to go into a dirty stinking fuel station and put on PPE so that I can get smelly diesel into my car. I love it.
What a load of bull you haven't addressed the fact most people in flats only have access to on street parking and would only be able to use public chargers they have put lampposts with chargers but EVs can't be left overnight connected to theses you seem to live in a world that is not in a city I can count on on hand the homes that could have a home charger in my area
EV's are not as convenient as petrol or a diesel
There's nothing convenient about driving to a petrol station and cueing up, because someone is in the shop buying groceries or lottery tickets.
@@dogbreath6974
😂😂😂
That's almost sophistry.
@@t1n4444 No, it's just an observation of a fact - and something that all of us have experienced at some time. If you have your own offroad parking (as 60% have in the UK) then re-'fuelling' your vehicle overnight from the grid is much more convenient than driving somewhere to have it done for you. If you haven't got access to that then the chance is increasingly that your destination (shops, workplace, travel destination) will have a charger.
@@neilcunningham1081
You might want to re-research those facts too.
In any event it's not really relevant.
Will presume you're aware of the proposed hydrogen refueling network in Germany? And thence across Europe.
Rishi wants UK to be "up there" ref car manufacturing so he'll have to consider going down the hydrogen car route.
You might womder just how long it would take to not only install home chargers but upgrade the size of incomers to older properties.
I would suggest most battery EV owners wouldn't be entirely happy being on an overnight trickle charge.
You might factor in also that electricity is going to be the current "imposed" fuel supply (admire or ignore supposed pun as you wish) and the domestic draw for heating/cooking would take priority.
Solar and wind farms take time to obtain planning, as do mega battery sites so a bit of an issue there too.
Now we read that some battery storage systems will, can and have experienced fires.
We read too that even as we type the marine transport industry is discussing the topic of battery EVs catching fire on car transporter vessels.
Not only does such an event damage a vessel it seems the gases emitted find their way into the marine environment. The concern is that the cost of reparations to the marine environmental agencies will not be cheap ... neither would the cost of fighting a dispute through the courts.
BP know this from not so distant experience. BP were well and truly rinsed as you might recall.
Naturally I support the evolution of hydrogen power and would prefer batteries to simply go away in favour of burning hydrogen gas In a suitably modified ICE, or used to be used in fuel cells.
You need to interview someone from National Grid / a DNO about grid upgrades & local distribution inc. (?) community storage & load management