alt Hacker NewsI found https://www.racfoundation.org/research/mobility/still-standi... a fascinating report, especially how nearly half of London has off-road parking.
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Thanks, this link therein looks very impressive, about the usage of space for parking, and the roads needed to connect them too:
https://www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/spa...
The "or with the potential to have" is hiding away a lot, to the point of being misleading. Most homes, especially in flats and terraced housing, which are the majority, won't have the infrastructure support for charging point conversion.
In my (generally affluent) zone 4 neighborhood in London, the number of green plate EVs had multiplied like rabbits over the past few years, but few houses have off-street parking. A huge percentage of the cars parked on street are EVs.
But since you can plug in to charge at many street lamp posts and since most people don't drive their cars much on a day to day basis, it all works fine even without off-street parking. There are also several reserved medium-speed charging spots around the neighborhood and lots of fast chargers at the local large grocery store.
"London" covers a quite large area and outside of central London houses are the most common type of housing.
Most of inner London doesn't need a car at all.