Why stop at on-street?
https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/information-for-residents/transport-parking-and-streets/parking-and-permits/workplace-parking-levy
Well there's likely to be a change in taxation on this soon. One of the arguments a lot of people who use EV's have used is "I can charge it at work" either using officially installed charging infrastructure, or a 13A cable through the window to their parking spot. This makes can effectively make commuting free[1]. Where this becomes even more interesting is once V2G kicks off, if you have a big enough battery, and a short enough commute, you can drive to work, plug in, drive home, plug your house into the car, cook dinner, run the tv etc... off your car, drive back to work the next day, plug in. Your employer effectively is covering your electricity bill. I did actually do the maths on how big a battery would I need to run my flat for 24 hours, and could I fit it on my bike, and take advantage of the e-bike charging at the office (spoiler, not cost effective at current battery power density).
Gemeente Amsterdam has taken a policy of getting rid of about 10000 public parking spaces.
They are replacing them with parking space for bikes and brommers ala:
They have the same form factor as a car space, and they can move them in. At very short notice (great for festivals...). The idea is that they stick one in a location, if it works, then they replace it with a permanent installation, then move the temp one to somewhere else, rinse and repeat.
This is great, if you're riding an omafiets, but if you want to park something with a different form factor *cough* velomobile *cough*, you're screwed. I'd like to see a bike hanger type setup as a option (see my thread in the Dark Side section on how to store a velomobile). But Amsterdam has some of the most talented bike thieves on the planet (hotly contested with NYC), meaning any install would have to be rather substantial.
And ultimately, a lot of the arguments on why you shouldn't be allowed to
discard abandon park your car on the public street could also be used to apply to bikes (and is why dockless bike schemes didn't fly in Amsterdam, that and racism, and a fuck it lets blame shit on tourists approach).
Under Dutch tax law a employer can pay your commute, at a fixed rate of €0.19 per km, or the actual price if you take public transport. Thing is, they define vehicle to include bike, brommer, motorbike, or car. This is obviously below the real cost per km for most cars, but for a bike it's actually pretty damn good. Cycle 10km each way to work, you're getting an extra €19 per week, tax free. Funnily enough the higher spec swapfiets bike is €19 per month... Annoyingly the way it's supposed to be calculated is the shortest reasonable route (i.e. the route you might want to actually take, not the route googlemaps says you *CAN* take), not the actual distance you do ride. Apparently my 100km ride home from work was considered "taking the piss"... Can't think why...
Back to the 2 ton death cages. I can see in the next few years the rise of Yet Another Scrapage Scheme, as the government tries to get the worst polluting vehicles off the road, as well as try to stimulate a car manufacturing sector that will be well and truly fucked by certain events... What I'd love to see tho is that rather than a car for a car policy, there is also an option of a car for bikes scheme. You trade in your old car, and swap it for a e-assist bakfiets, 2 stadfiets/hybrids, and as many kids bikes as you have in your family. Complete with all the locks etc... needed to make it practical. But somehow, I don't see any Government doing such a thing, assuming the UK government even exists in a years time...
Anyway, I'm waffling. Get rid of VED.
J
[1] A lot of Amsterdam data centres have EV charging points outside I've yet to work out which side of the generators/UPS they are connected, could be an interesting place to charge one's EV in the result of big power cuts. Or maybe it's an extra battery source via V2G...