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Elon Musk has unveiled plans for more than 10,000 Tesla car 'superchargers’ across the world by the end of next year – including 71 stations in the UK.

The chargers are capable of re-energising electric vehicles in just 30 minutes, allowing drivers to complete long-distance journeys in one go.

Tesla’s plan for a UK-wide network of superchargers marks a major step towards the replacement of fossil fuels on British roads.

The new map shows exactly where all of the current supercharger stations are, including nine within the Greater London area.

It also shows the locations were Tesla is planning to build a station before the end of 2019, with Milton Keynes, Crawley and Brighton among the places set to benefit.

Leicester, Ipswich, Oxford, Belfast and Aberystwyth are also among more than 20 places in the UK set to receive a supercharging station in the near future.

It comes after Mr Musk, the firm’s founder and CEO, said “thousands” of supercharger locations were in the permission or construction phase around the globe.

The map shows that Europe, North America and China are set to be the main beneficiaries of the expansion.

The current superchargers allow Tesla owners to recharge their cars to 80 per cent within half an hour.

But Mr Musk has revealed they are working on developing more powerful chargers. These include so-called Megachargers, capable of re-energising the Tesla Semi, a truck prototype recently unveiled.

At a conference in California in November, the billionaire entrepreneur said the truck can go at 65mph when fully loaded, and claimed it could do zero to 60mph in five seconds.

He also claimed it could travel for 500 miles on one charge.