This is why electric cars ain't going to work
There's all these lines of terraces (and other properties) with either street parking or allocated parking away from the house. And then, as you mention, there are those families that have multiple cars. If these folks all have electric cars, how exactly are they supposed to get them charged? Try stringing a cable out your window to you car outside your door let alone half way up the street and you'll have the council's health and safety Nazis on you in a flash. The only other alternative is to have charging points up and down each street, but nobody's going to cough up to wire every residential street in the country. The kicker is, they're still doing it. There are high end semis going up here that have no garages. Another great piece of forward planning!
(An eejit passing by in a purple satin skirt with sparkly bits, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 9:56, Reply)