700,000 EV chargers needed by 2030, says ubitricity UK boss

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

In this morning’s bumper edition… I speak to ubitricity, the UK’s largest charging network, about the government’s infrastructure targets, providing high-reliability rates, and their plan to install 50,000 chargers by the end of 2025.

Further down and elsewhere… Arrival’s electric bus gets permission to drive, VW’s Diess calls for the end of the war and used EV transactions double.

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The UK boss of ubitricity on getting to 2030

“To me, looking at the numbers of EVs we might grow to, closer to the 700,000 is the more likely need,” explains Toby Butler, the UK managing director of Britain’s largest charging network ubitricity. We’re talking about the EV infrastructure strategy, published by the government last month which included a target of having 300,000 EV chargers across Britain by 2030.