Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 24th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the number of electric vehicle charges in operation as of 24 February 2023.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 1st March 2023

Data held by the Department on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, is sourced from those installed or funded under Government approved grant schemes, operated by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.

The below table provides the data available for (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g):

i. the increase in the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices in each year requested as at 1st January 2023 according to Zap-Map;

ii. the number of domestic electric vehicle charging devices installed in each year requested funded through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) at 1st October 2022 and;

iii. electric vehicle chargepoint grants sockets installed in each year requested funded through the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grants (EVCG) at 1st October 2022 and;

iv. workplace electric vehicle charging sockets installed in each year requested funded through the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) at 1st October 2022.

v. On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) charging devices installed in each year requested at 1st October 2022, data only collected in financial years.

UK

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

Calendar year

2015

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

i.) Public charging devices (see note 1)

1,389

3,098

6,196

4,270

7,600

8,680

ii.) EVHS

12,445

21,614

25,993

54,197

115,799

70,682

iii.) EVCG sockets Installed

-

-

-

-

-

972

iv.) WCS sockets Installed

-

1,656

4,522

6,257

11,093

11,891

Financial year ending

2015

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

v.) ORCS

-

50

429

1,271

1,228

303

Table notes:

- indicates data not collected as grant scheme not running in this time period

1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.

2) The data across these sources and the columns in the table should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics, EVHS and the ORCS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS and EVCG counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.

As at 1st February 2023 there were 37,625 public charging devices in the UK according to data supplied by Zap-Map.

As at 1st October 2022, the most recent public data available, there were 40,333 charging devices installed through Domestic Recharging Scheme (DRS), 335,190 charging devices installed through EVHS and 3,281 charging devices installed through ORCS. There were also 36,317 charging sockets installed through WCS and 972 charging sockets installed through EVCG.

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