Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a weekly British EV newsletter.
In today’s edition… the iconic Leaf is on the way out, Arrival cuts back, and further down I ponder how we can keep EV charging cheap, including comments from several industry commentators.
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.
In the last week…
H2 FUTURE: There has been a lot of talk about hydrogen in the past week. Not only has Hyundai revealed a good-looking ‘N Vision 74’ concept, powered by a 62kWh battery alongside a hydrogen fuel cell, but also Johnson Matthey, a large UK industrial business, announced it was going to build a gigafactory to manufacture fuel cells, mainly for use in commercial transport. Obviously, hydrogen has remained a controversial topic in EV land - Elon Musk calls them ‘fools cells’ - and these recent developments will only divide opinion more. My own view is battery EVs are the way …