The impact of domestic chargers with smart charging enabled (now mandatory) on maximum demand after diversity is not very large because they almost always end up charging in the middle of the night. Public chargers have a much bigger impact because they need to run when the customer plugs in and not later. Heat pumps have a massive impact because they have no diversity (when my house is cold, so are all my neighbours and probably it was cold yesterday and will be tomorrow as well).
How most people can end up charging in the middle of the night, when 50% of people in EU are living in apartments, have no parking space and will be most probably using on Fast DC chargers?
This story is specifically about West London, which is not the EU but I'll grant you has similar settlement patterns.
More than two thirds of car owners in the UK have access to off-street parking. Many people who do not have such access don't have a car in the first place.
This part of outer West London is particularly suburban, I would expect that number to be even higher there.
I would also expect a very substantial number of slow lamp-post chargers suitable for over-night charging to be installed instead of DC fast chargers.
Wait, where do these theoretical people park their car then? Either they have a parking spot which a charger can be installed at, or they don’t have a parking spot at all, and presumably just drive around endlessly?
