Plan for car chargers in all new homes in England ‘will make access exclusive’

The Guardian reports that the prime minister’s plan to mandate electric car chargers across all new homes in England from next year risks making access to charge points “exclusive”, leaving behind motorists from poorer and rural areas

Senior voices in the energy and motoring sectors argued that the Government should be doing more to make convenient, high-speed car charging more accessible to the public to help give all motorists a realistic opportunity to switch their fossil fuel cars for electric version – with Guy Jefferson, the chief operating officer of Scottish Power’s energy network business emphasising that “It’s essential that [electric vehicle] chargers are available not just in new homes, private driveways, wealthy high streets and motorway service stations, but in remote, rural and socially disadvantaged areas too”.

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