John Armitt and Odd A Jakobsen respond to Adam Vaughan’s piece about electric carsAdam Vaughn’s experience of driving an electric vehicle (One Man and his Tesla,27 July) demonstrates the genuine need we have for a truly national, visible network in this country if drivers are to confidently switch from petrol or diesel, or which is a key recommendation of the UK’s first-ever National Infrastructure Assessment. We also produce a key recommendation that government should set a requirement on local councils to work with charge point providers to allocate 5% of their parking spaces to electric vehicles by 2020,and 20% by 2025, which may be converted to electric vehicle charge points.
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Source: theguardian.com