There *are* cases where charging is a genuine problem. Much of the UK is terraced housing with no off road parking. I can't even park on the same street as my house. I cannot charge at home. I also can't charge most of the places I drive to.

March 21, 2026 - 17:22 UTC

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Not trying to tell anyone what's best for them, but I live in such an area myself and have found that the best solution has been to just not have a car at all.

Electric cars are good for the irreducible core demand for personal transportation, hopefully that demand is just low in dense urban areas.
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Yes, this is true, but the thing is if you had a little pole by the road and a couple dozen meters of wire going towards the house you could create charging infrastructure.

It's phenomenally easy from a technical perspective. It's just legal and liability stuff which slows it down.
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Something which eg Denmark has already done
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And don't misunderstand me, I caught that you said you can't always park by your house.

But we could very easily create a smart charging network which taps off individual houses and bills the owner of the car for that electricity use. I've been yelling at utilities for years to spin this up.
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