No Fast Charge today

The email returns properly next Tuesday 27 April

Good morning all. I’m afraid on account of me being quite ill there is no Fast Charge today. But it will be back properly on Tuesday 27th April.

It’s a shame because there was a lot of interesting news following Earth Day yesterday. I’ll make up for it next week, I have an interesting story on VAT to share - bet nobody has said that before.

Very quickly, some stories I would have covered today which are worth looking at:

• An American consumer group has found Tesla’s autopilot can be tricked into coming on. This follows the recent crash which Elon Musk claimed was not due to autopilot. Read more on the BBC.

• While speaking of Tesla’s autopilot, is it any surprise that people do have crashes when there are videos like this (TikTok) doing the rounds on social media. Self-driving doesn’t exist yet, but videos like this blur the lines and could encourage people to misuse features.

• New research by the AA of 15,000 motorists found 4 in 5 people believe EV’s are too expensive for them to trade in th…