Special Report: Britain’s Ultra-Fast Charging Problem

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

There is no news content in today’s email. That’s because instead, I’ve focussed entirely on a special report into Britain’s rapid charging network. It’s taken me weeks to do a lot of the research for this so I hope it’s interesting!

Normal service resumes on Tuesday. Have a great bank holiday weekend!

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Special report: Britain’s Ultra-Fast Charging Problem

About two weeks ago, I was on ZapMap plotting out a journey to Somerset looking for the locations of ultra-rapid charging stations. These are the chargers that typically will deliver between 100kW and 350kWh, depending on the operator.

But, whenever I found a charger and checked its comments, I started seeing a pattern of complaints from people about the rates they were getting. I decided to investigate what was going on, and here’s what I …