Liberty Charge warns of £1.5bn shortfall in government EV infrastructure funding

Neil Isaacson

Liberty Charge is warning of a £1.5bn gap in government funding for EV infrastructure.

The public chargepoint operator says the government’s £450 million Local Electric Vehicle infrastructure (LEVI) fund falls short of real-life costs.

In total, the government has committed just under £1.5bn in funding for rapid and transit chargepoints across the UK. Liberty Charge believes this is just half of what it will cost to install the 300,000 public chargepoints needed to...