SCAPPA DEL LAVORO £ 950 milioni EV Fondo di addebito rapido per la prima volta dai conservatori

Before anyone gets cross:

The fund has been cancelled because it was BS. It stumped up money only for large corporations that own motorway services. The Tories also never actually formally allocated funding for the scheme. So it was either an empty pledge or another opportunistic way to try to get money into the hands of their mates.

Labour has already launched a bigger and better put together scheme which focuses on giving grants to install kerbside chargers, with a focus on high density, lower income areas where off street charging isn’t an option.

I’m a massive advocate of Net Zero. But if there is one thing I can agree with its detractors on, it’s that the focus has been on big ideas and things (while beneficial) are more abstract and less tangible for the average person. Whereas Net Zero needs to now refocus on things that help the environment AND directly benefit the poorest. 

What do other people in London think about this? I live in London and I’d imagine most people live in leasehold flats with allocated parking (if they are car owners), and it’s notoriously difficult to get building management companies to make changes to things – like installing charging points. At least on the estate where I live, people run extension cables off their balconies down to the car park below. This isn’t allowed (we’ve had letters) but no-one seems to care, and people need to change their cars somehow.