Title: The EV Revolution Is Doomed Without Better Charging Infrastructure
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The EV Revolution Is Doomed Without Better Charging Infrastructure
James Morris
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There were few positives from 2020, but one of them was massive growth in the sales of electric vehicles. In the UK, all-electric cars went from 1.6% of the market in 2019 to 6.6% of the market in 2020, representing a near three-fold increase in sales volume. In Europe, the Volkswagen ID.3 and Tesla Model 3 were number one and two best-selling cars in December 2020 respectively, with only the fossil fuel Volkswagen Golf surpassing them. But the charging infrastructure to support all these new EVs isn’t keeping pace, and it could mean stretching the already insufficient charging infrastructure beyond breaking point. We need more street chargers to cope with the huge increase in EV sales
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To give you an idea of the problem, by the end of 2019 there were around 270,000 ultra-low emissions vehicles (which includes plug-in hybrids as well as battery electric vehicles) on UK roads, so the 108,205 BEVs sold in 2020 represents a 40% increase in numbers.