The British government is set to introduce legislation that will require all newly built homes in England to be installed with electric vehicle chargers, according to Electrek, making it the first country in the world to impose the requirement.
These are to be “smart” charging devices which can automatically charge electric vehicles during off-peak periods, it said, while adding that office complexes will be required to have one charging outlet for every five parking spaces.
The mandate for EV chargers in homes and offices is expected to take effect in 2022, Electrek wrote. This is part of England’s efforts towards rapidly increasing the number of available EV chargers across the country, ahead of the UK’s ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles set to take effect in 2030.
“Flexible charging at home and at the workplace during the day is going to be crucial to decarbonising not just transport, but [also] the UK’s entire energy system,” Good Energy CEO Nigel Pocklington told website Business Green.
The UK government also announced a UK Space Agency-funded mobile app named EV8 Switch, which works to calculate the amount of money UK motorists could save by switching to an electric vehicle compared to their current petrol- or diesel-powered vehicle, in addition to details on CO2 emissions reduction and air quality improvements that could be made by doing so.
The mobile app also shows drivers their distance to the nearest charging points, and which journeys can be taken without needing to recharge along the way. The UK government will also be extending its 50 million pound sterling (RM287 million) fund for the installation of EV charging points, and said that one in seven cars in the UK market this year are sold “having a plug”, which is to say are either plug-in hybrids or pure EVs.
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Meanwhile in Malaysia….
Meanwhile in Malaysia … I asked a few contractors for my home renovation project to prepare wiring with separate fuse for a future EV charging port at my porch and all of them gave me a funny look and none of them included it in their quote (I had to ask them to update the quote).
In the United Kingdom a single-phase household supply may be rated 100A or even 125A.
In Malaysia it’s rated 25A to 63A.
Nice talk but which charger would developers of new housing use? Mercedes own? BMW/Mini own? Tesla supercharger?
Would house buyers gets to choose which type they want? And what happens if they prefer to switch to other brands later on 10 years later their new EV car comes incompatible with the current system?
adapters..
The brand of the charger actually doesn’t matter and if you are buying an EV, you can actually buy the charger from an external reseller for a more competitive price compared to the vehicle manufacturer.
It matters as the brandholder needs to “open” their system for others to use. It may or may not be compatible itself with the wide variety of EV cars and charging system. Hence the point raised is important as there really isn’t a worldwide international brand-agnostic global standardised charging system. Can we have a UN ECE standard for EV charging and everyone must follow this standard please?
https://paultan.org/2018/01/25/mercedes-benz-ev-charging-stations-at-bsc-open-to-all-brands-sunway-pyramid-pavilion-kl-next/
A Tesla supercharger (90kW to 250kW) won’t work on an average Malaysian 240V single phase household supply.
Really look forward to having this in Malaysia as well
Great idea, just a question, how do people living in apartments/condo might charge their e-car?
Just detach the battery and bring home charge lor…lol
Those in awe should know that UK lands are mostly developed and new housing projects are relatively fewer and far between compared with Bolehland (well, what it was some time back at least). Just saying that apart from good policies, it shall also be relatively easier to be mandated there.
“are mostly developed”
In the UK a water heater is a must, as it’s a cold country. The water heaters there have a much higher capacity than those sold in Malaysia (because the tap water there is cooler). They used electric heaters too in the past. Therefore their electric distribution network is traditionally different.