Majority of charging points left ‘out of service’ for months

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Good morning and welcome back to The Fast Charge, the electric motoring newsletter. My name is Tom Riley and I’ll be your host.

In today’s edition, the world’s first on-demand charging point gets a boost and I review the maintenance* of the UK’s infrastructure.

*Correction. Perhaps I should say ‘unmaintained’, as it seems broken charging stations are being left to fester for months.

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