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The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Hmm....

>I don't know about the recycling of charging points, especially compared to the recycling of petrol pumps? Do they fail often? A petrol pump is a mechanical device, so I would expect it to fail relatively often as well

Charging points are also mechanical devices. A big difference, however, is that a petrol pump can still be used with a bent nozzle, whereas a charging point with a bent pin can't.

Given petrol pumps are operated by for-profit garages, I expect problems to be quickly resolved whereas a free charging point...

Additionally, we need to look at how we handle failure. With a failed ICE vehicle (well pre-OTT electronics) it is a relatively simple matter to move it to the side of the road or to tow it, with many modern cars and EV's they are effectively immobile and so will block roads and junctions (the more common location for failure) until such time as they either be restarted or a recovery truck turns up.

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