Top 40 towns to charge an EV revealed

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

In today’s edition… brand new ‘hyper charging’, the latest chargepoint figures, and Channel 5 are making a new documentary.

If you have any questions or comments, please do contact me at tomrileylondon@gmail.com.

In the last week…

NEW DATA: Last Thursday the Department for Transport released its latest EV charging statistics that cover the final quarter of 2021 (October, November, December). As a headline, the stats seem positive news. As of New Year’s Day, there were 28,375 public chargepoints in the UK, an increase of 9% by comparison to the previous quarter. This means, during 2021, the number of public chargers increased by 37% (or 7,600 in total). That means for every 25 EVs sold last year, one charger was installed (last year 190,000 EVs were sold in 2021 according to SMMT).

UK TOP 40: As part of some analysis I’ve done into the new figures, I’ve pulled together the UK’s top 40 locations to juice up an EV. There are …