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GREENFLEET 138
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Accelerating to zero emissions
The government has published its Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy, which outlines plans for the UK to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030.
The strategy acknowledges that chargepoints can sometimes be difficult to find, difficult to use and may turn out to be in use or broken when a driver reaches them. It also notes that paying for charging can be unnecessarily complicated.
The plan therefore includes new legislation to be brought in this summer to improve people’s experience when using public chargepoints. The strategy says it will work with industry to open data so that drivers can access real time information about chargepoints, compare prices, and pay for their charging easily. The plans will also require a 99 per cent reliability rate at rapid chargepoints to give consumers confidence in finding chargepoints that work.
The strategy addresses many of the issues that are hampering electric vehicle adoption. This is welcome news, given the clock is ticking towards the 2030 ban of new diesel and petrol cars and the ultimate aim of being net zero emissions by 2050.
This issue of GreenFleet looks at the transition towards a zero emission fleet. There’s information on installing charging infrastructure, advice on dealing with rising energy prices, as well as practical considerations when switching to electric vehicles.
Angela Pisanu, editor
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