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Could Britain short circuit without an upgrade?

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Aug 24, 2021
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Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter. 

In today’s newsletter… not much news but quite a lot on household power supplies and whether it will suffice in the future.

As ever, do drop me an email at tomrileylondon@gmail.com if you have any feedback, questions or comments.

In the news…

CENTURY OLD: Really nice story (good PR) about a chap who is 101 years old and tried out a Mache-E recently. The bloke had first learned to drive back in 1936 in a Ford Model T - which was a car that changed the face of motoring. Read more.

TESLA BOT: During an AI day this week, Elon Musk revealed that Tesla was looking at building a humanoid bot to do human tasks. He’s often come out with mad ideas like this before and failed to deliver on them. However, it’s good PR all the same - what was it Oscar Wilde said about being talked about at all costs? The images released by Tesla about the bot were all very space-age - albeit, the video of a man in a ‘bot’ suit was a bit Del Boy of hi…

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