Electric Car Charging Cable Across Pavement

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.

Electric car charging cable across pavement.

Charging cable on pavement in slaithwaite the owner of the car who did not want to be named said it was not always possible to park right outside his home or charge his charge at other locations. 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. Charging your vehicle on the street by trailing a cable across the pavement is not permitted. Peetee while i appreciate your position and know of others who have a similar arrangement of running a cable across a pavement under a domed cable strip it is definitely not recommended and should not be encouraged.

Want an electric car charge point on the street outside your house. 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. Cables across the pavement. 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.

Leaving the electric cable draped across the pavement. 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. 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. 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.

The charging point was installed by council approved contractors and paid for by the owner. There s a 2 5m pot but the catch is you have to apply though your council on street residential chargepoint scheme available. He says that carrying out a supercharge of his petrol electric hybrid usually takes around 40 minutes but it can be substantially longer.