Standard launches major report setting out road to e-car future

Public chargers needed to fuel e-car revolution

- Stephen Armstrong and Sarah Warwick

THE Evening Standard today launched the second phase of its push for more London motorists to go electric with a major report calling for key measures to help drive change.

The Plug It In initiative aims to help clean up the capital’s air by getting more drivers to move away from petrol and diesel cars and instead towards zero tailpipe emission vehicles, working with the motoring industry to ensure the right legislation and infrastructure is in place to help make the electric dream a reality. It comes after campaigners gathered last night to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah, the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate. Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, who gave evidence at Ella’s inquest, described her death as a “canary in a coalmine” for the way it sounded the alert on the toxic mix of pollutants in the air.

The Standard has published a 10,000-word white paper gathering the best ideas from our Plug It In expert summit last November and setting out how to remove the roadblocks preventing London from becoming fully electric.