Drivers face being forcibly removed from parking spaces under EV push

Drivers could be 'kicked out of parking spaces' as part of a new tax. New software could soon kick drivers out of parking spaces to help manage electric car charging plugs in a move towards electric and away from traditional fuels like petrol and diesel.

The Daily Express newspaper has reported Rick Wilmer, CEO of EV experts Chargepoint has warned that it was likely many buildings didn't have enough infrastructure in place for every owner. Rick said: “It’s not one person who comes to that same charger every day.

“Let's say you’ve got a building with 100 flats and 30 of those tenants have EVs and you decide to put 10 EV chargers because you know that not all 30 tenants are going to charge at the same time." He went on, telling the national newspaper: "So how do you manage that."

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Rick added: “If you get your vehicle fully charged you get a notification saying ‘hey, move your vehicle’ so the next person can go charge their vehicle. But I'm a nice landlord and I'm not going to send you notifications between midnight and 6am telling you to move your vehicle because you’ve stayed too long.

“All of these features that make this a good solution for a multi-family environment are all enabled through software and it's a big area of focus for us.” There were 930,000 UK chargers at the end of June, according to ChargeUK, a lobby group, but the majority of these have been installed in homes and business premises, with only about 65,000 public chargers available.

Public chargers range from ultra-rapids at motorway services to slow chargers on lamp-posts. Vicky Read, the chief executive of ChargeUK, said that the analysis suggested some of those concerns may be misplaced.

She said: “In little more than a decade, the UK’s charging sector has grown to become a major player in the green economy, providing the infrastructure that more than a million EV drivers rely on today and scaling fast to deliver the charging needed through to 2030 and beyond.”