Patchy Mobile Coverage Could Hamper Electric Car Charging

Electric vehicle (EV) drivers could struggle to charge their cars at around two-thirds of the UK’s most common type of public charge point because of unreliable mobile network coverage, a report has said. The RAC Foundation’s study published on Monday said that the “EV revolution” is being “failed” because 66.4 percent of public charge points outside London are in locations where at least one mobile network provider does not have adequate 4G coverage to unlock the flow of electricity. Just a third (33.4 percent) of locations surveyed were covered by all four mobile network providers—EE, O2, Three, and Vodafone—guaranteeing that all drivers can use the chargers regardless of which network they use. Within London, the proportion is only slightly better, with 39.7 percent of locations being fully covered, compared with 61.3 percent which were not....