Filled me with confidence right up until the last sentence! Do you think it's easy enough? I currently do like 500 miles a month, rarely more unless it's a road trip. I'm guessing I won't have to charge more than 2/3 times a month which should be more than bearable?
Kudos to anyone going electric with no off road parking. I'm fortunate to be rural, 2x EV on the drive, 2x car chargers, owned property so I have chosen to put enough Solar on the roof that we get 1,000 miles a month into the cars in the Summer. Basically like night and day to someone in rented property with on-street-parking.
But ... the infrastructure is WAY better than it was a while ago, and is only going to get better during your ownership (offset by more EV owners chasing the new chargers)
I could do with someone explaining to me the business model of "Install some chargers, and when they break take months to fix them" along with "Make everyone become a member before they can use the system"
Streets will have chargers installed - e.g. in lampposts. Hopefully your street will be first! Maybe you could hassle the council about that? If they are planning to do it, then prioritising (YOUR!) streets where there is at least one user might make sense?
There are also solutions for getting a cable across the pavement (e.g. some councils will install a narrow channel in the pavement, into which you can push your cable so that there is no trip hazard) - but that will only work on days when you can park outside your door - once everyone has an EV neighbour collaboration will solve that ... maybe.
Weekly shop might be an opportunity to charge? If you are in a hurry then Supercharger/similar will get you 10% - 80% in 20-ish minutes. That will also usually be the most expensive juice.
7kW (a regular single phase wall charger) is about 25 MPH - so you need to be parked up for 4 hours for 100 mile top-up. Great for overnight at home, but its a long shopping stop! Unless you have a fold up bike and can get home and come back "a lot later"?
So you could do with something better than 7kW for your shopping-stop-and-charge
13AMP is 5-7 MPH - and the losses are greater than 7+kW, so fine for when parked at Rellies for the weekend, probably not for much else unless you are in a position to help yourself to someone else's power
Any charging near work? Walking / fold-up-bike distance?
Two crowd-sources of data are Zap-Map and Plugshare. Personally I find the drilldown in-and-out-repeatedly of Zap-Map makes it hard to see what is actually available at a site (how many stalls are THIS kW and how many THAT kW), so I prefer PlugShare. But I think in reality you need both - both allow user comments, so if someone is typing "Its broken" in one then you need to see it (doubtful many people bother to type that into both of them!)- so reading the comments on both APPs probably prudent before setting off. They will also enable you to figure out what is available near you, what APPs you are going to have to own in order to use them (unless a stall has contactless - v. rare that at present - unless you are near a GridServe, THAT is what the future of 3rd party looks like)
