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The Government will make an extra £20million available to Britain’s local authorities to bolster their electric car charging infrastructure. The cash injection is for kerb-side devices to be installed in towns and cities to ‘allow residents without private parking to reliably charge their vehicles,’ says the Department for Transport’s announcement this morning. However, a report … Read more
Local councils are planning to install just 9,317 public charge points for electric cars between now and 2025, which threatens to cause a huge ‘bottleneck in adoption’ to plug-in vehicles in the coming years. An average of 35 chargers per local authority are due to be provided in the next four years with 126 councils … Read more
Just a few months after trolling Apple for no longer including a charger with the iPhone, two competitors are now doing the exact same thing. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun confirmed the Mi 11 will come without a charger and Samsung deleted a Facebook post over the weekend that mocked Apple’s move, which may be hinting … Read more
Just a few months after trolling Apple for no longer including a charger with the iPhone, two competitors are now doing the exact same thing. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun confirmed the Mi 11 will come without a charger and Samsung deleted a Facebook post over the weekend that mocked Apple’s move, which may be hinting … Read more
The true cost of using Britain’s network of public chargers to replenish the batteries of an electric car have been uncovered. Charging an electric vehicle using a public charge point can cost almost 10 times more than charging up at home, according to research by What Car?. It found that early adopters who regularly need to … Read more
A poll of electric-car drivers has named the top 10 UK public charge-point operators rated highest for customer satisfaction. Some 1,600 plug-in car users were asked to give a satisfaction score out of 100 for the 26 network operators currently available across the country. Tesla came out on top for its Supercharger network, though this … Read more
The number of electric car rapid chargepoints in the UK will more than double between now and 2024, but a government grant to help motorists buy vehicles to plug into them is likely to be cut before they all arrive. The Government confirmed last week that it will invest a total of £400million to help … Read more