THE electric car specialist has opened its fourth UK store in Birmingham and plans to open further sales and servicing facilities in Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle and Edinburgh in the near future.

The Supercharger technology is capable of topping up the the Model S’s huge batteries in little more than twenty minutes – the six new locations comprise five in London and one in Birmingham.

Overall, there are eighteen Supercharger locations in Europe out of a worldwide total of 237; Tesla says it is the fastest growing and fastest charging network in the world.