Giles Coren on EV charging in London

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

In this morning’s edition… I hear from TV presenter and columnist Giles Coren about his experience living with an EV without off-street parking in London.

Elsewhere, BMW’s boss cautions on EV rollout pace, Tesla scales back customer offers, and I find Shell selling engine oil at its charging hub.

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Giles Coren on living with an EV in London

“You never know if you’re going to be able to charge or not.” This is how Giles Coren, the TV presenter and columnist, sums up his feelings about owning an EV in London without off-street parking.

Although Giles is perhaps most famous as being a restaurant critic, since 2020 he’s also been one of the UK’s early adopters of electric cars. At his home in Kentish Town, Giles owns a Jaguar I-Pace – a car famously stolen twice last year before it was retriev…