Educate planning officers to boost charger rollout, says Fastned boss
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Hello, I’m Tom Riley and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.
Top stories in today’s bumper edition… Fastned’s UK boss Tom Hurst tells me how they are winning on reliability and how uninformed planners could be slowing down charger installations.
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Tom Hurst on why Fastned is no.1 for EV drivers
Background: Fastned is a manager of over 250 rapid charging hubs in Europe. The company was founded 11 years ago in Amsterdam and its stations cover Europe. Fastned’s ambition is to have 1,000 hubs in operation by 2030, and their rollout of stations has been increasing quickly. In the UK, they were early adopters, opening one of the first British ultra-rapid hubs in Sunderland back in 2019.
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