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May 14, 2021
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Good morning and welcome back to The Fast Charge, the electric motoring newsletter. My name is Tom Riley.

In the email today, a lot of news has fallen out from the Financial Times Future of the Car summit. Elsewhere, some good news on EV growth. But, a worrying growth drop of charging points.

FYI, there will be no email on Tuesday 18 May. I’m off to the countryside.

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

In EV news…

GREEN GROWING: Data published by the Department for Transport yesterday revealed that 338,000 new alternatively fuelled cars were registered in Britain in 2020 compared with only 295,000 diesel cars. It hopefully marks the beginning of the end.

Look at that growth!

CHARGE SLOWING? On the flip side, DfT also revealed an analysis of charging points earlier this week. What it said was that, since 2015, the number of public charging points has grown by 43% per year, on average. Rapid charging points have increased at a much hi…

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