Foolish Volkswagen, Ambitious Biden and Failing Morrison

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Good morning and welcome back to The Fast Charge, the electric motoring newsletter. My name is Tom Riley.

It is an extremely fast update today because I’ve been up and about doing the day job this morning - apologies for my tardiness! The next edition will be a bit more in-depth and include a feature on home charging points.

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

In the news…

APRIL FOOLS: Yesterday was April 1st and I should have known better but for a brief couple of minutes I got absolutely punked by Scotland’s Press & Journal. They shared a story titled “It’s Electric Avenue for NC500: Visitors will have to hire plug-in cars to travel famous route”. The story itself told how the Scottish government had signed a deal with Tesla so that people doing the North Coast 500 - which goes around the Highlands - would need to hire Tesla otherwise be stopped by police. It seemed like the sort of mad policy a government might insta…