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Not really a surprise to me - the big jump in EV sales during the pandemic was way above the rate of increase in charging points (especially high speed ones), especially at motorway service stations.
Just also read today (same paper) that John Lewis 'Insurance' has temporarily pulled out of insurance EVs because of the likelihood of huge repair bills - whether due to general accident damage or the knock-on cost associated with runaway battery fires.
I suspect the change came about because enough numbers of EVs are now on the roads where they aren't just being used as the rich man's plaything and due to the latter issue becoming more and more prominent.
Not a week goes by where we read about some runaway EV battery fire taking out copius amounts of other vehicles and other things - sometimes burning for many days, shutting down roads, etc.
Whilst ICE vehicles may experience fires with a simimalr amount of regularity, their effects are fare more understood and can be tackled far more easily / quickly and with much less incidental damage - including to the health of bystanders and firefighters.
Maybe things will settle down now that the Pandemic sales surge in EVs has tailed off considerably (why many makes are laying off staff at EV plants) once the installation of new chargers and research into EV repairs and fires, etc catches up a bit.
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