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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Risk of ‘serious injustice’ in EV chargepoint rollout, MPs warns

A Tesla car plugged into a Source London EV charging point in central London (John Walton/PA) - (PA Archive)

The needs of disabled drivers are being ignored in the rollout of electric vehicle charging points, a group of MPs said, as its chairman warned the Government against “baking a serious injustice” into the system.

The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also expressed concerns of regional divides in the introduction of the stations, with 43% installed in London and the South East, and just 15% in England’s rural areas.

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