Dublin council strategy for EVs published

No proposals for solutions for people with no driveways?

No plans for overhead charging cables, or prevention of on-path charging cables?

There is a direct relationship. It is about charging of private EVs. Cables on footpaths are already a problem, and likely to be a growing problem. It is very much a missed opportunity in failing to address this.

Enforcement is certainly a big problem, but this is a bit of a grey area. It is possibly a litter offence, similar to putting out a signboard on the footpath, but difficult to enforce. They should really have taken this bull by the horns and;

1) Set out a plan to change legislation to make this explicitly illegal, with some practical enforcement options.

2) Started some research into alternative options, such as overhead swinging cable trunking, like the petrol pumps of old.

Is it though? I failed to see them and I'm in and around Dublin streets daily. There are days when I clock 200 km without leaving its borders. And even if they are, they are not condoned by any LA. So it cannot form a part of a strategy.

Regarding the document I'm 3/4 in reading it and I cannot stop the feeling it was written by different people with different agendas without a unitar view. It strikes me that they discuss something then draw a conclusion which is not discussed.

At least Dublin has some form of a strategy, Galway CC refuse to make any public comments on what their plans are and keep hiding behind the “we are waiting for feedback from the national strategy implementation ” line

not good enough

Somewhat surprising the level of people without driveway in Dublin. All the time it was repeated that over 80% of people charge at home but based on this document it is just not the case, with figures at least 10% less. The question which is not addressed in this document and by nobody else in gov the yellow band which could increase this toward the over 80%

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Is placed before any discussion about the type of charging would be practical. Is like the decision has been made and then we make up arguments why. Like lampost tech is "emerging tech". Then on the other side."actually in the UK they've deployed '000s" Later we find arguments why rapid hubs cannot be deployed. Like access to grid or land. To me it looks like a strong resistance to do a job and finding reasons to fail the said jobs. Well the photoshoot happened anyway so all good.

I disagree with the view that AC chargers litter the street. Done correctly they can be pretty minimal impact

For example there's dual port AC chargers that are essentially just a pillar with a small socket on each side

On a street with a bunch of parking bays, you could put a small pedestal (say 30x30cm) in between two spaces with one of those chargers on it

It wouldn't impact the pavement in any way and the impact to parking would be minimal. Cables would be unlikely to be trailing on the pavement at any point so not too much risk of trip hazards

There's also plenty of bad ways to do it as we've all seen in the past

Just because Dublin has a strategy doesn't mean any chargers will be installed

There's been plenty of plans and strategies over the years, a very small subset of them came to any fruition

I was speaking more about council plans on general. To give a few examples from my locality

2nd primary school, currently has no land to build on

Western bypass road, currently has no route planned

Greenway along river, dunno what the story there is

My point is that local councils, like any government body, have a track record of laying out plans that get constantly delayed or reduced in scope

So until chargers are actually installed and working, I'm not going to get too excited about the new strategy. It's great that they have a strategy now, better than having no plan at all.

But still, the true measure of success is number of installed chargers, and how useful they are