Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 5th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to introduce standards for availabililty of fast charging points for electric vehicles by (a) distance between points and (b) availability for public charging without subscription.


Answered by
Grant Shapps Portrait
Grant Shapps
Secretary of State for Defence
This question was answered on 14th February 2020

Our vision is to have one of the best infrastructure networks in the world for electric vehicles, and we want chargepoints to be accessible, affordable and secure. The number of rapid chargepoints is increasing quickly, with 2,400 devices currently publicly available, but we recognise there is more to do. Along with the private sector the Government will invest £1 billion in charging infrastructure – making sure that everyone is within 30 miles of a rapid charging station for electric vehicles.

Our grant schemes and the £400m Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will see thousands more electric vehicle charge-points installed across the UK. In particular, the first £70 million of the Charging Infrastructure Investment fund is expected to deliver an additional 3,000 rapid chargepoints by 2024.

In July last year, work commenced to determine a vision for a core rapid charger network on England’s strategic road network. This will report in Spring 2020. Highways England has already committed £15m to ensure there are chargepoints (rapid where possible) every 20 miles on 95% of the Strategic Road Network by the end of 2020.

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