He added:"Ten years ago, there were just six electric vehicles on the market, so they accounted for about one in every 1700 new car sales. Today, they are 140 electric vehicles, with another 55 coming this year. One in six cars sold in the UK is pure-electric.
"As an industry, we're up for that challenge, but we cannot deliver for society without another regulation: the right to charge.", ministers are set to announce an infrastructure strategy on Friday that should address the issues around charging. It also reported that BP will invest an additional £1bn in EV charging points in support of the plan.
He added:"We need more rapid chargers to meet rising sales. Even more critical is the need for greater investment in public charging to get that network up to speed to meet this transition that's rapidly accelerating. That's why we're calling for a national plan to get the right chargers in the right place, and that has binding targets on infrastructure to match those that we have as an industry.
SMMT MikeHawesSMMT It's needed. The network is patchy at best and certainly puts people off switching. It certainly helps sell a lot of Tesla.
SMMT MikeHawesSMMT Lol
SMMT MikeHawesSMMT Absolutely nuts to devise a strategy AFTER 30,000 charge points have already been installed - most with woeful UIs, hopeless payment systems, no consideration to accessibility issues, no consideration to queuing, and lots with very poor reliability.
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