In message , at 17:34:59 on Mon, 25 May
2009, David A Stocks remarked:
And in London the problem is distributing the electricity from the
grid to the end users. Even if there was a plentiful source of
electricity, you'd have to do quite a lot of work to get it where
it's needed.

Just dig up the relevant bit of road/pavement and tap into the existing
domestic supply cables that are under every street. This must have been
the approach for the existing charging points, and it's hardly rocket
science.

You'll soon overload it if it's more than a few charging points per
street. Nor does this approach solve getting the extra power from the
outside world to the substations.
--
Roland Perry