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The numbers released by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will embarrass the Prime Minister as he hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this week

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London and the South East have more public car charging points than the rest of England and Wales combined.

And that makes Boris Johnson’s claims ridiculous that he is leveling the country when it comes to achieving net zero carbon emissions.

The numbers released by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will embarrass the Prime Minister as he hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this week.

They show that the northeast with 887 has the fewest charging places for electric cars.

That’s compared to 7,489 London and 3,254 in the South East

That’s 10,743 for the richest regions in the country – seven more than the rest of England and Wales combined.

Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband said: “The move to electric cars is vital to meet our climate targets, but ministers are failing to take the necessary steps to increase the number of charging points outside London.

“Labor would expand assistance with the purchase of an electric car for people with low and middle incomes and accelerate the expansion of charging points in recessed areas.”

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All new cars must be electric by 2030, but the Prime Minister only gives grants of up to £ 2,500 to buy them. That equates to £ 7,600 in Germany and £ 5,000 in France.

More than 650,000 plug-in vehicles have been sold in the UK over the past decade.

The Department of Transportation said it will spend £ 620 million on the transition, including adding more charging points.

A spokesperson added, “We want to make charging an electric vehicle as easy and accessible as refueling a gasoline or diesel car.”

But Chancellor Rishi Sunak has yet to say how he will replace the £ 30 billion tax lost every year on diesel and gasoline.

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And he froze fuel tax in last week’s budget without introducing alternative measures to increase green revenues, such as B. Payment for travel on the UK road network.

Net Zero expert Tim Lord of the Tony Blair Institute said, “The government is sticking its head in the sand about the move to electric vehicles and the threat to tax revenues.”

And Fair Fuel UK’s Howard Cox said: “There should be a moratorium on the unpopular ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars in 2030 until cleaner fuel technologies hit the market.”

Great Britain has achieved the fastest decrease in CO2 emissions in the G7 countries since 1990.

However, to meet the target of a 78% reduction by 2035, a 71% reduction in gasoline and diesel traffic is required.

And according to experts, that means that the charging points must be distributed more evenly than they are today.

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Car charging stations

  • Northeast 887
  • Northwest 1,620
  • Yorkshire and the Humber 1,156
  • East Midlands 1,280
  • West Midlands 1,591
  • East England 1,569
  • London 7,489
  • Southeast 3,254
  • Southwest 1,717
  • Wales 916

Source: DfT

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