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New EV chargepoint analysis + Is Redwood Materials planning a UK factory?

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The Fast Charge
Jul 26, 2022
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Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a weekly British EV newsletter.

In today’s mega edition… I analyse the latest government EV charger data, including showing the fastest growing towns for chargepoints, the UK’s Top 40 places to charge up (compared to last year), and the rollout pace of each region. I’ve also used Zap-Map data to reveal Britain’s best and worst large rapid charging networks for reliability.

Elsewhere… as the government releases its critical minerals strategy, did you know Redwood Materials, the battery recycling business, quietly set-up a UK listed company a year ago as it plans European expansion?

As ever, if you have any thoughts or feedback, please do feel free to drop me a line at tomrileylondon@gmail.com or simply reply to this email.

Latest EV chargepoint statistics

In the last week, the government published its latest quarterly statistics on EV chargepoints. It revealed that there are now 32,011 chargers in the UK, 5,974 of these are rapid devices.

This means…

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