I can't quite work out if you are annoyed that there is too much investment in infrastructure, or too little...
Neither. Just arguing the case from the perspective of the other poster who raised the issue.
As is, most EV owners at work do complain that infrastructure is way behind anything even remotely supportive of EV adoption. Given that we're very much in the thick of such an industry, I reckon they'd know more about it than most.
So if you want to tie it down precisely - I'm of the understanding that there is far too littl einfrastructure investment to support EVs... but I'm not especially
annoyed about it. Just surprised that they haven't pushed ahead with that in order to encourage more sales.
Are you sure infrastructure investment is falling behind sales growth?
Yup.
One of our customers biggest complaints is how we never invest in the infrastructure. We had some lovely profits from the last period, so we wanted (and really needed) to invest £12 billion - The government and regulator argued that 3 billion was more than adequate. 14 months later and several high-risk failures, we're still fighting the point.
Just anecdotally, chargers seem to be popping up all over the place near me. But happy to be corrected.
You'll see a few here and there round our way, too... but I couldn't tell you where a single one is. I can think of only one location (a park & ride) where one might be... and I know there's a place near Maple Cross with three charge points, because the EV owners say they're always broken.
Our works fleet is meant to be going electric and we already have dozens of vehicles in full-time operation, but I can't tell you which sites have the charge points that suposedly came with the vehicles.
There have been announcements of increased investment since this report was published.... it's a trendy thing for Goverments to invest in.
That doesn't mean it's enough... Compared to last period (we work in 5-year cycles), they've 'increased' their investment in our stuff too, by half a BILLION pounds... which sounds really impressive to the plebs and media scum, until you find they're still nine billion short.
