Transport Minister Trudy Harrison reckons the UK government is going to help create ?one of the best EV charging networks in the world? so that we can all get electric cars and bikes and help save the planet.

There are still quite a few issues when it comes to electric motorcycles that I have, in the past, rabbited on about at length. The main problems with them being, they?re too expensive, they?re not fast enough, they don?t go far enough, they take too long to charge and there aren?t enough charging points dotted around. And then of course there are the humanitarian issues surrounding the mining of the precious metals used to make their batteries, the financial impact of the fact that the price of mains electricity has skyrocketed recently and then the environmental impact of all the fossil fuels that need to be burned to create the electricity to power them, in the first place. But apart from that, they?re absolutely brilliant. Or at least they are when they?re not bursting into flames.
But whilst a Transport Minister promising us more and more charging points isn?t going to make me rush out and buy a plug in motorcycle, it is certainly a step in the right direction.

A trickle of new chargers

At the moment, there are just shy of 30,000 public EV charging stations in the UK, including 5,400 rapid chargers. Trudy said that even now, 600 new chargers are being added to the network every month and that in the future, every new home, office and supermarke...