One third of EV chargers in London

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Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a weekly British EV newsletter.

In this morning’s edition… the latest EV charging statistics, Lucid buying parts off Amazon, and mineral concerns for Europe.

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In the last week…

NEW STATS: Last Thursday, the government released the latest batch of EV charging statistics. The headline figures were that, as of April 2022, there were 30,290 public chargepoints available in the UK. Of these devices, 5,494 were rapid (meaning faster than 25kw). This means, in the first quarter of 2022, the UK added a grand sum of 1,915 chargers to the streets (of which 338 were rapid) which is a 7% increase. As I suggested would be the case two weeks ago, this pace is isn’t exactly speeding up compared to the recent quarters before it (as shown by the graph below). By my maths, if the government wants to reach its vision of 300,000 chargers by 2030, …