All new homes in England need to be equipped with electric car charging stations as the government seeks to facilitate the infrastructure improvements required for the planned mass adoption of electric vehicles.
The Ministry of Transport announced a public consultation on the issue last summer, which has now ended with the government confirming that it will pass laws in parliament later this year. The changes will force home builders to install charging stations so that potential owners can easily charge their plug-in hybrids and electric cars at home. The move also means new home buyers will not have to take advantage of the government’s subsidy system for chargers.
The rules don’t affect newly built homes with no off-street parking, but the government is also investing heavily in research projects that include wireless charging stations and charging stations protruding from the sidewalk.
The move towards electric vehicles comes as the UK government seeks to achieve stringent air quality and internal combustion engine pollution targets. From 2030, the road-to-zero strategy, worth 1.5 billion pounds, provides for the sale of all new vehicles without electrification.
Details on this remain few and far between, but it is believed that new cars must be able to travel 50 miles on battery power in order to stay on sale for hybrid and hydrogen cars from new car showrooms.
The new rules, due to be presented to parliament later this year, require that completely new EV chargers are the “intelligent” charging variant that makes optimal use of electricity tariffs at peak and off-peak times and that EVs could function as a beehive-like network of Storage of electricity when large amounts of electricity are generated by wind turbines, for example.
In addition to Road to Zero, the government has also announced that the UK should be carbon neutral by 2050. Since traffic is responsible for around a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, improving and reducing emissions from cars is an important goal on the way to this goal. this ambition.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced plans to introduce charging stations in new buildings: “Home charging is the most convenient and affordable option for consumers – you can just plug your car in and charge it overnight like a mobile phone.”
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