Image source, Rob Colwell
- Author, Paul Moseley
- Role, BBC Politics East
tourism in the East of England could suffer if the region does not install more electric car charging points, a councillor warned.
Rob Colwell, a Liberal Democrat member of Norfolk County Council, said he was worried because more people were moving to electric vehicles.
The government said the number of public electric charge points had increased by 63% in the region since April 2023.
In the eastern region, there are about 5,000 publicly available chargers, out of 61,000 in the country.
Image source, Paul Moseley/BBC
The government target is to have 300,000 public charging points in the UK by 2030.
So far this year – an average of 61 extra have been installed every day.
If the government target is to be hit – that number…
