Very useful having more chargers, but it’s the type & where these chargers are that matters.
I live in the south-east of England & it’s here that many of the latest “Ultra-Rapid” chargers are springing up although BP are being bombarded with comments about the rest of the UK not having any of these & BP are responding with a stock reply that they are rolling out x number by 2025 & y number by 2030. Now, I love these ultra-rapid chargers as they make longer journeys far easier, until you run out of them & end up at some pokey single 50kW site where the charger is needing a reboot, or there’s a Leaf Uber charging to 100% with a sleeping driver (no wonder Leaf batteries don’t last). So, we need at least two chargers at each site as singles aren’t reliable enough to stop at on longer journeys.
Councils need to concentrate on “Destination Chargers” at shopping centre car parks where people will spend a few hours, these are the 7kW chargers. None of these in my local high street car parks so no EV owners bother shopping in my town of course, we all shop in a neighbouring town with those chargers and the local shopkeepers wonder why their businesses are losing money.
The other problem site is the Ecotricity’s rubbish Electric Superhighway at motorway service stations, they often have no CCS connector so you’ll be stuck there a very long time on a 7kW charge, or, they simply don’t work anyway although Ecotricity have repaired them faster this year than in previous years. We need many CCS Ultra-Rapids at motorway services, we don’t care that Ecotricity made some exclusive deal 10 years ago, break that deal & give it to a provider who can invest & provide what is needed as this is the problem that is stopping people buying EVs now.