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Fast forward a decade and Nissan’s current Leaf+ can travel up to 239 miles, which is enough to get from the capital to Liverpool without needing to stop for a charge.
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EV ranges have more than trebled in the first ‘electric decade’: The average electric car on sale in 2011 had a single-charge driving distance of just 74 miles.
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But while manufacturers are holding up their end of the bargain by making available more accomplished battery-powered vehicles, both industry and consumers are being let down by the limited number of public chargers on Britain’s roads, the trade body said.
The SMMT listed each EV in showrooms right now, as well as the battery powered models – both fully-electric and ‘range-extending’ hybrids – that were available to Britons in 2011.
They suggest this number won’t be enough to match demand, are worried that there will be a serious lack of fast chargers and raised issue with the postcode lottery of charging solutions around the UK, with areas such as Northern Ireland and 자세한 정보 the North West of England having far fewer devices than other parts of the country.
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