Petrol stations have various strict requirements regarding their electrical installations for obvious reasons. How will adding a MW size supply for a few high power chargers be dealt with, separation? Will earth leakage currents be a problem? If I remember correctly the reason the canopys are so high is to move the lighting into a different zone.
Maybe, ones installed with the OLEV grant are supposed to collect data, I'm not sure how many do in practice. At least some are reliant on the homeowners WiFi connection (which the owner has no motivation to maintain, so will disappear as soon as the owner changes their WiFi password or gets a new router) and others use a cellular backhaul but actual signal conditions are anybody's guess. There are plenty of dumb ones installed without the grant, there are people who charge on "granny cables", and then there's all the public ones fragmented across many owners.
If anyone has the data it's probably the car manufacturer's. The cars know where they are, if they're charging and how fast, etc.
Maybe, ones installed with the OLEV grant are supposed to collect data, I'm not sure how many do in practice. At least some are reliant on the homeowners WiFi connection (which the owner has no motivation to maintain, so will disappear as soon as the owner changes their WiFi password or gets a new router) and others use a cellular backhaul but actual signal conditions are anybody's guess. There are plenty of dumb ones installed without the grant, there are people who charge on "granny cables", and then there's all the public ones fragmented across many owners.
If anyone has the data it's probably the car manufacturer's. The cars know where they are, if they're charging and how fast, etc.
