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UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin

Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

we have plenty of street lights on our streets...powered by leccy - so why not convert them to have sockets at their bases and some internal electronics to monitor the charge supplied to each vehicle

Sodium street lights draw around 400W, LED ones closer to 40W. Even a basic home EV charger is in the 3kW - 7kW range. There's no way the street light power feed could cope with charging a streetful of EVs overnight. This is the big problem, when people hear "charge up" they think of tiny gadgets that they use for their phone. Most people have no idea of the amount of energy stored in a car's fuel tank (until it goes bang) and no idea of just how much power is required to charge an EV fleet. Do the maths first.

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