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New £63 million boost for Britain's electric vehicle revolution (www.gov.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

£63 million for cutting into pavements so cables can cross them! I buy cable ramps for £8 per meter that will fit a couple of EV cables.

Best use of money is reducing the cost of running electric cars:

lower electricity costs on EV tariffs
lower or remove road tax for all EV owners
Ensuring EV cars are easy and cheap to repair to lower insurance costs.
Ensure battery recycling is performed in the UK to reclaim the rare earth metals.
Removing insurance premium tax for EVs

I’m getting really fed up with the government going from the Tories stuffing public money into their own pockets, to Labour taking half that amount and just setting fire to it.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Those cable ramp things are obnoxious and terrible for anyone using the pavement at best they are a trip hazard for normal pavement users at worst they are down right dangerous / make the pavement unusable to people with disabilities. Cables should not be going across a public pavement!

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

All valid points. I would counterpoint by suggesting people are generally not walking on residential streets between 8pm and 8am, when people are charging their cars at home.

Cable ramps can be quite unobtrusive (the one I have here is just 20mm high with a really shallow ramp either side), HSE recommended, and even lower than most dropped kerbs, how about we find out where they are seen as a problem and fix those instances?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's one I walk past on one of my routes. It's there every week between midday and 1pm and it feels higher than 22mm and the ramp definitely isn't shallow.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Same as, one I was past regularly is at least 100mm high, if not a bit more and where they have the cable stretched from their house to the car the cable is often lifting up either or both ends of it to almost make it float.

I fucking hate it with a passion xD

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