Nevertheless — and there’s at all times a nevertheless with electrical automobiles — the state is letting us down. The one place most Londoners will see free parking is on a Monopoly board. Certain, in case you’re an electrical car driver, you get a 100 per cent low cost on the congestion cost, exemption from the Ulez cost, as much as 100 per cent off highway tax, plus plug-in grants for brand new automobiles. However there is no such thing as a cross-borough consensus on parking. Certainly some of the efficient methods of convincing individuals to change can be to supply free parking anyplace in London, however of the 32 metropolis boroughs, solely 11 have moved with the occasions: Barking & Dagenham, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringay, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames and Westminster. There needs to be laws forcing councils to adjust to blanket free parking in addition to a city-wide roll-out of charging factors. Till then, we’ll be caught in a twilight zone of indecision, one administered by each central and native authorities in addition to a non-public sector which is at all times looking out for a useful state handout.