EV chargepoint analysis for Q3

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

In today’s edition… do we have enough chargers per car, and will the Chancellor announce road tax for EV owners.

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New EV chargepoint analysis

Last Wednesday the government published its latest quarterly chargepoint statistics. The headline figures are that we now have 34,637 chargers, with some 2,262 being installed over the last three months alone - more than ever before.

That’s a 34% increase in 12 months, which is a superb amount.

Are there enough chargers to each car?

At present, there are around 570,000 battery-electric cars on British roads – a population that’s increasing by about 60,000 every three months. That’s an astounding pace, but there are questions about whether our charger rollout is keeping up.

As of this month, there are now 17 electric cars to each public chargepoint. And when you look at solel…