Electric Car Charging Cable Across Pavement

There s a 2 5m pot but the catch is you have to apply though your council on street residential chargepoint scheme available.

Electric car charging cable across pavement.

A colleague who lives in london did charge his car from his terraced house and covered the cable which ran across the pavement with basic safety kit to stop passing pedestrians from tripping up. He says that carrying out a supercharge of his petrol electric hybrid usually takes around 40 minutes but it can be substantially longer. Hampshire says this will eliminate the need to invest in on street charge points and allow residents to benefit from cheap tariffs. Want an electric car charge point on the street outside your house.

Cables across the pavement. The cable protector should be non slip have contrasting colour markings e g. Yellow have anti trip sloped sides and be of a tough construction suitable for outdoors use. Local authorities should be taking more action to support ev drivers in your position in installing on street charging points that you can use without having to run cables.

Cables across the path or hanging overhead are a hazard and it is an offence under the highways act to place wires or other apparatus across a path that are likely to post a danger to the public. The charging point was installed by council approved contractors and paid for by the owner. Hampshire county council is advising electric car owners with on street parking to run an electric cable from their house across the footway to charge their vehicles. With some people able to park close to their homes it s tempting to want to run a cable across the pavement to their car.

A man has had a metal fence installed in front of his home to stop him charging his electric car after a row with the local council. Charging your vehicle on the street by trailing a cable across the pavement is not permitted. Any cable protector used should cover the area likely to be walked across including the full width of any footway and verge between the property and the vehicle.