Can’t talk about other countries but as someone working in the EV charging business in the UK that gets asked why we don’t routinely do this for EV charging bays: planning permission. Anything that goes above head height is a right pain in the arse to get permission for.
(I also suspect people that ask that are wildly overestimating the power output of a parking bay’s worth of solar vs what an EV takes to charge - if we do put panels up we just sell the energy straight to the grid, it’s not worth the added complexity of trying to actually use the power ourselves)
Can’t talk about other countries but as someone working in the EV charging business in the UK that gets asked why we don’t routinely do this for EV charging bays: planning permission. Anything that goes above head height is a right pain in the arse to get permission for.
(I also suspect people that ask that are wildly overestimating the power output of a parking bay’s worth of solar vs what an EV takes to charge - if we do put panels up we just sell the energy straight to the grid, it’s not worth the added complexity of trying to actually use the power ourselves)