61% of on-street chargers are lampposts
The latest news from the world of EVs
Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.
Top stories in today’s edition… I pull out a few insights of interest from the government’s latest EV charger stats, The Times newspaper calls for a deadline rethink, and Transport for London reveals a new scrappage scheme.
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Latest EV charger statistics analysis
Headline… Over the course of 2022, the number of new chargers installed in the UK totalled more than 8,680. That’s an increase year-on-year of 31%. See the official statistics which are based on Zap-Map data.
Interestingly… the availability of ultra-rapid chargers increased by a whopping 78% over 2022, which is an increase of 1,005. Meaning there are apparently now 2,295 super speedy chargers to use.
But… while having a surging number of rapid chargers is great, actually, the number of slower chargers we have available – which are traditio…
