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Can London’s electric vehicle charging network ever catch up with Amsterdam?
None of which should obscure the fact that London is, by some distance, the best model the rest of England has. Greater London’s 26,668 public charge points – nearly a third of all the chargers in the country, serving just 11 per cent of its EV drivers – sit at a density of almost 17 per sq km. The average London driver is 126 metres from a public charger. In Newcastle, that distance is 336 metres. In Birmingham, 241. In Sheffield, 288. These are not trivial differences. They are the physical expression of a two-tier country, and they explain why range anxiety persists as a barrier to EV adoption outside the capital.
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