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Drivers would naturally park in "their" spot and silently fume if anyone else had the temerity to do so.
As before, unless they want to make it work. Charging points are not like other car parking spaces. People know they have a function and try to leave them free if they don't have to use them. I see it in my street, too. There are always different electric cars parked there.
Near me there was an LTN (before they were called LTNs) which had rising bollards for residents to access. They failed so much that the council eventually got rid of them. Loads and loads of rising bollards containing high voltage charging infrastructure seems a recipe for huge maintenance costs.
Rising bollards are bollocks. I'm sure we all remember the famous car-spearing bollards installed in various cities. I think the videos were 'viral' about 15 years ago. Did you look at the site jellybaby linked to? They're plug-in bollards, quite a clever design, although no idea how durable. You remove them after use.
Oliver Schick-
Charging points are not like other car parking spaces.
Except the ones that aren't. My friends street has no designated EV charging spaces. It's just some of the lamp-posts have charging ports on them.
A couple of streets down there are dedicated EV charging spaces, but that's in a street that has way less parking pressure. (Yes, it can be as little as two streets away. By me I'd say that the parking spaces are about 20% full at any one time, 200m away in another road the occupancy is pretty much pegged at full. Same CPZ/restrictions.)
Greenbank
Drivers would naturally park in "their" spot and silently fume if anyone else had the temerity to do so.
Near me there was an LTN (before they were called LTNs) which had rising bollards for residents to access. They failed so much that the council eventually got rid of them. Loads and loads of rising bollards containing high voltage charging infrastructure seems a recipe for huge maintenance costs.