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  Pablo, the excellent news I was referring to was that all new homes (with parking) should be built with charging points.
  
  As for cost, Ubitricity (i.e.Siemens) is stuffing charging points into lamp-posts all across London and charging residents £7.99 monthly rate, 16.2p/kWh, 19p/Plug-In BUT you do need their £299 'smart cable'.
  
  'Ubitricity is now the UK’s largest public EV charging network with over 2,554 charge points and a 12.5% market share' which suggests that the market is very fragmented so far if the largest company only runs an eighth of the networks.
  
  I suspect the market will settle down over the next few years leaving a small number of players and most people being able to plug most cars into most lamp-posts.
  
  Why DDC are digging up roads/pavements, always an expensive option, rather than sticking them on lamp-posts is beyond me.
  
  While commercial charging points will always be more expensive than home charging, especially once dynamic pricing comes in when we finally get round to building a national smart grid, most will be charging cheaply at home or work.
  
  Whatever happens it's got to be better than the 4* I paid 148p/l for on the M1 on Monday.

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