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.
Can London’s electric vehicle charging network ever catch up with Amsterdam?
