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Jamie Heywood

Why Uber is plugging £5m into 700 new electric charge points across London

An electric car being plugged in (John Walton/PA)

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People across London are increasingly thinking about when they should make the switch to an electric vehicle, if they haven’t already. Given the significantly lower running costs and the need to improve air quality, it is now accepted that the future of our roads is electric.

But there’s also one challenge I consistently hear when speaking to some of the five thousand Uber drivers who have already switched to electric: the problem of finding reliable charging points close to where they live.

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