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ByEthanFox

How much would *never* being able to charge an electric car put you off a house, in 2026?

Had an offer accepted on a mid-terrace, and it's great in tons of ways, but I've realised there's a problem.

It's on a main road, which means we can't park out front. But there's plenty of space nearby to get a residential permit, and that's fine, we can just do that, for our current petrol car.

But this means we can never have an electric.

The main road means we can't park out front, and the house faces onto a pelican crossing, so we can't get a dropped kerb (unsure if the front garden would even be big enough, but that seems moot). The rear of the garden has a gate, but it leads out to a 1-person-width walking alleyway that opens up to a cul-de-sac of double-yellows on our side of the road, meaning you could only park over the opposite side, and even if you ran a really long cable, pretty sure you couldn't drape it over the road.

All this adds up to that the owner of this can probably never charge an electric car on the premises, and I'm pretty sure it's not worth having an electric if you're forced to use commercial chargers.

If we were buying in 2018, I would've thought this "unfortunate" but wouldn't have given it much thought. But is this a bit of a shitter in 2026? I'm concerned about how important this is going to be within the next 10 years.

How would you feel about this?

Posted Aug 4, 2026, 8:57 AM UTC

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