Gavin Lawlor

They send a team out that cuts the slot, puts the channel in, and then you're ready to go.

And if you want to do that, the homeowner pays in the UK 50% of the cost.

It is.

And I think a much simpler way to do it over here would be, we have a process here called a road opening licence that you're meant to use to do something like that.

And so it's perfectly possible for a homeowner to do that through the road opening licence, to get the piece of kit themselves, to put it into the road,

And then to put the cable into it, the, the w there's two things that need to be resolved from a legislative perspective.

One specifically that would have to be included as exempted development.

So you wouldn't need planning permission.

Uh, second of all, um, then they would need to, I believe that there's a cost of associated with that.

And I think if you're in that circumstance, you there's a grant available for people to put home car chargers in.

I think it should be included that if you're in a situation where you're in an urban environment.

and you need to put a piece of kit like this into your footpath, then there should be a grant contribution towards that as well.

This is it, but at least if you have the channel, you have some chance.

If you don't have the channel, well then you're not going to be able to do it.

Absolutely.

And that's why in the UK, in urban areas, you don't own the property outside your footpath and you don't have the right to park your car in that spot.

So that's why in the UK they have these systems on a street where you have those, it's like a bollard that has, you know, a series of connection points on it.

And beside each of the connection points is a swipe card.

And so it doesn't matter which one you plug into, your swipe card is tied into your meter in your home so that when you swipe it, it adds the cost of the energy you use onto your bill.

Yes, but the problem with providing that is who provides it, who bears the cost of that infrastructure and the technology involved to do that.