What do Tory leader hopefuls think about EVs

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

In today’s edition… I look at what Tory leader hopefuls have said about EVs. Further down and elsewhere in EV land… Amazon ditches vans for e-cargo bikes in London, Octopus launches a new service for drivers, and the government publishes an EV myth-buster.

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What Tory leader hopefuls think about EVs

As long-time readers may know, I have always been of the view that Boris Johnson was a positive force for EVs. While some of his party have argued that it was Carrie, his eco-campaigner wife, that encouraged him to bring the 2030 ban on internal combustion engines forward, the truth is even as far back as 2008 Boris suggested the plug would replace petrol.

But that’s irrelevant now, as since his resignation last Thursday, Tory MPs have begun throwing their hats in the ring to becom…