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Plus a paywall is coming in June - so get the early bird rate!

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Apr 23, 2025
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Hello, I’m Tom Riley, and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.

In today’s edition… I reveal my plans to introduce a full paywall from June. However, early birds can lock in a discounted rate. Details below…

Elsewhere… The government fleet is going all-electric by 2027, the EU is debating its 2035 date (again), and Europe plans to fight back in China this week - though it’s a high bar to beat right now.

As always, if you have any comments or feedback, please reply to this email or use the links below.

What I’ve been looking at this week…

Politics…

📈 In 2017, the government committed to electrifying 25% of cars in central government department fleets by 2022. Last week, they uplifted that commitment to 100% by 2027. This means all cars and vans in the government fleet will need to be electric by 2027. Read more. I have put in an FOI related to this to understand the latest.

Related to this… as nobody will remember, because it was four years ago when I had only 10 readers,…

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