A DRIVER endured a disastrous attempt to drive an electric vehicle 280 miles across the UK.
The driver said the trip from Essex to the North East took 16 hours.
Pezeditz, who posted the video, said that a lack of charging points on the route was the main reason the journey took him so long.
The driver, who headed to Darlington, said that he kept the electric vehicle at a steady 50mph to get the most mileage. But the drive still took him two days on the road.
He said that many of the charging points on the route across the country were not suitable and he had to stay on the road looking for better chargers.
Charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) have begun to expand across the country over the past year as the UK moves toward a total ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol cars.
As of July this year, there were 44,020 charging spaces across the UK, compared to just 24,374 in July 2021.
However there are disparities across the UK, and now a new map has revealed the places with the fewest charging points for battery powered vehicles, reports the Express.
According to the latest data from the Department for Transport and ZapMap, the Isles of Scilly is the only part of the UK with zero public charging devices.
However the local authority in charge of the island has refuted the findings, claiming there are 24 charging points in place.
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Castle Point, a small town near Southend-on-Sea has the least charging points on the island with just three charging points.
Melton in Leicestershire is third with nine charging stations and two rapid bays. Fenland in East Anglia is next with just 10 bays, one of which is rapid charging.
Next on the list is Staffordshire Moorlands district which has 12 bays according to the same data.
North Kesteven, a district in Sleaford, has 16 devices followed by The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire next up with 17.
North East Derbyshire has 18 devices followed by Rutland near Peterborough which has 18 plugs.
Merthyr Tydfil completed the top ten with 18 charging devices across the entire area while only two of these are rapid devices.
A DfT spokesperson said : “We have invested more than £2billion to support the switch to electric vehicles, and there are now more than 45,000 public charging devices across the UK.
“The number of public chargepoints rose by 38 percent over the last year – a rate that puts us well on the way to 300,000 by 2030.”
Toddington Harper, CEO at GRIDSERVE explained it was vital
no area got left behind in the transition to electric models.
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He said: "The number of EV charging points available is increasing at a faster rate than ever before, and it is important that no towns or regions are left behind.
“GRIDSERVE fully supports all initiatives that will deliver adequate EV charging throughout the UK. GRIDSERVE is also delivering charging infrastructure to serve towns and more rural locations.”
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