A lot of interesting comments here about the technology and the bias of the Torygraph, but there's also a fundamental reality of car ownership in the UK to take

A lot of interesting comments here about the technology and the bias of the Torygraph, but there's also a fundamental reality of car ownership in the UK to take into account. The overwhelming majority of the UK's housing stock predates widespread car ownership. There are entire streets of Victorian houses with paved-over front gardens because without that, the residents wouldn't be able to park their cars. Even the post-war New Towns gave fewer than one off-street parking space per house. Parking on the street is not a casual undertaking, either: houses are frequently only as wide as a car is long, so you get just one on-street parking space per house. The recently-built housing estates often have small car parks near clusters of houses rather than a dedicated parking space right next to the house, and for the houses that do have a garage, garages are built to a standard size from the 1930s, so you can't fit a modern car in it, it's just a storage room. If you're well off, none of this is a problem:you have a large garden, with a custom built garage that actually fits a car, but there's only so many such people. The consequence of all this is that there's only so many people who can instal an EV charger at their home. Only so many of those people want an EV at this time. Our housing stock has imposed a limit on the adoption of EVs.