> but you won’t see them unless you’re looking for them.
I was looking for them when I had an EV over an extended weekend. Availability of chargers, especially fast chargers is grossly overestimated.
> (There’s about 5 within a 10min walk of flat in London, that are hardly used)
So, I zoomed in on Trafalgar Square (using PlugShare). Within a 10 minute walk from there:
- there are ~40 available plugs
- of those 40, 9 are fast chargers
- of those 40, 12 are non-Type-2/non-CCS compatible (1 is fast ChaDeMo, so if you're type 2, it's one connector less)
So, yeah. Whichever "10 minute walk" you chose situation will be the same.
> Certainly it can be tricky in more rural areas,
Define "more rural areas". I live 20 minutes away from Stockholm. I'll let you guess how many chargers there are within a "10 minute walk" from a suburb which is mostly apartment buildings.
Here's a representative suburb: https://www.google.com/maps/@59.2855172,17.9568074,3a,75y,21...
And it's the same everywhere. Here's Coulommiers, 1 hour outside Paris. Population, 14 thousand people: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8206163,3.0939561,3a,75y,115...
There's definitely plenty of space to "install own chargers", right? ;)
Right now EVs are in the same place where cars ini general where over a 100 years ago: toys for sufficiently rich early adopters who can afford to deal with all the issues.