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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Stephen Armstrong

How can we stop electric vehicles being just ‘middle-class cars’?

In an ideal world, electric cars would be accessible to everyone. They would be as affordable and plentiful as gas-guzzlers; and there would be convenient charge points around the capital for us all to juice fully whenever we want.

Sadly, that isn’t the case. “Right now electric vehicles are middle-class cars,” says Chris Pateman-Jones, CEO of EV charging start-up Connected Kerb. “The real problem is inequality in access to charging infrastructure.”

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