Sam Wollaston’s account of his electric car journey highlights the lack of a proper electric vehicle strategy, says Antony Watts. Plus letters from John Hooley, Janice Gupta Gwilliam and Daniel Scharf
Very glad to see Sam Wollaston’s article (Leading the charge! Can I make it from Land’s End to John o’Groats in an electric car?, 28 July). For too long I have been pressing my MP to press the Department for Transport to press whatever parts of this disorganised government to have a sensible strategy for electric vehicle (EV) energy delivery. An EV transport system has to be a complete cycle, including battery, car, auto-routing navigation and charge infrastructure. That is what Tesla has built, and it works. For the rest of us, it is huge range anxiety.
The Tories believe that the market will provide, and they chuck out millions to make it happen. Result? A scattergun of charging points with no sensible organisation, put together by tens of often incompatible networks.
