Not all electric cars as rapid as the chargepoints

Plug-in hybrids risk blocking rapid chargers, warns RAC Foundation

Widespread confusion over how fast electric vehicles can be ‘refuelled’ could be undermining efforts to provide an adequate public chargepoint network, warns the RAC Foundation.

The latest battery-only cars need only five minutes at the quickest ‘Rapid’ chargepoints to take on enough electricity to add about 15 miles of range.However, the motoring research body says because of the limitations of their on-board control units, it will take almost all plug-in hybrids an...

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