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Bring the people 'beautiful' electric car charging points, calls former transport minister

Pen-y-gors

Horses for courses

Personally, I don't think grid charged personal EVs have a long-term future, infrastructure is a nightmare.

Short-term there will be a roll-out of charging points, but they need to be of several types:

1) fairly slow chargers, capable of a full 'fill' in 8 hours or so - long-term car-parks, offices, homes, hotels etc

2) Fast top-up, 50% in a couple of hours - shopping centres, town car-parks etc

3) Very fast - full fill in 20mins or so - motorway service stations etc

Our community shop is just waiting for our super-fast to be installed - well, we're waiting for National Power to install the extra mains feed first. Then it'll be 80% fill in 20 mins or so, just nice time for a cuppa and a slice of cake in our cafe.

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