The rapid-charging build-out has quietly stopped being a London story: 7,044 of the 7,598 new rapid and ultra-rapid points added in the two years to April 2026 — 93 per cent — went in outside the capital, with the East of England up 95 per cent and the North West up 83 per cent (ChargeUK). For fleets running EVs on regional routes, that's the infrastructure gap closing faster than route-planning assumptions may have kept up with. Worth re-running your charging-corridor maps rather than trusting last year's dead spots.
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