Re: The problem with electric vehicles in the UK
There should also be access to a scheme where the vehicle is allowed in an EV space (which could be outside your house).
These schemes are great in principle, until they're put into practice. Then they're usually a beaurocratic nightmare of proving your eligibility, residence status and so on, and completely fail for:
1) multi-car households where there is only on-street space in front of the house for one of those cars.
2) households with a driveway too small for their car or unsuitable for their medical/disability conditon (example - my partner is registered disabled, has a drive but it's dangerous for her to use due to the slope. Asked for a disabled spot outside the house (road is much flatter than the drive), was turned down because she has a driveway despite being unusable).
3) Likely to be other issues.
Plus no one's likely to happy for you to park your EV in their spot. Rightly or wrongly, people can be surprisingly precious about parking in front of their own house, what they consider to be their spot. On-street charging and EV spaces may solve some problems but they will create others.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
