Same deal in NZ. Taxis, motorcycles etc. Could be a good idea to allow High-Occupancy-Vehicles, too. Between free parking and faster travel, I now use a motorbike for most of my daily transit. One less car.

Once EVs with regenerative braking become common, it will be leeching.

Once EVs with regenerative braking become the norm, then this will be effectively stealing energy from the drivers.

Not exactly helping the situation there...

The reason it is ignored is that it is a relatively easy engineering problem. Either use more copper or higher voltages (which with correct latching/shuttered connectors are completely safe). 25kW = 500VDC at 50A which is a similar cable size to 3 phase cables here, which we have a 30m extension cord of out the back that is easy enough to throw over your shoulder and carry around. There are also other approaches such as IPT (inductive power transfer).

The assumption from when I was working on EVs at university was that you can use another bank of these batteries to charge the bank in the car however. Use solar/cheap off-peak power/wind/whatever to charge the home/office storage battery bank over the day then dump the charge from one to the other in a short space of time. Same could apply for the electrical gas station equivalents.

Yeah, but as a counter-point, it is next to impossible to do anything with the waterfalls even when they are on your land due to the Resource Management Act, we have a pretty reasonable sized river running through our land and couldn't do squat with it.

33 million cycles of the bus clock, so for 33MHz PCI bus 33M cycles = 1s.