Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 21st April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that people living in houses without driveways will have access to electric car charging points before 2030; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

On 25 March the Government published the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy, setting out our vision and commitments to make electric vehicle (EV) charging cheaper and more convenient than refuelling at a petrol station. Of the £2.5 billion of Government funding committed to the EV transition since 2020, over £1.6 billion will be used to support charging infrastructure.

Government wants to ensure that lack of access to off-street parking is not a barrier for drivers realising the benefits of owning a plug-in EV.

To ensure people can switch to an EV wherever they live and drive, we are pledging at least £500 million to support local chargepoint provision. As part of this, the £450 million Local EV Infrastructure fund will support local authorities to work with industry and transform the availability of charging for drivers without off-street parking. We have also launched a £10m pilot as a springboard for the development of the full fund. This pilot is open for applications until 17 June 2022.

Additionally, local authorities will continue to benefit from the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, turbocharging smaller scale chargepoint projects. So far funding has been awarded for the installation of over 6,500 public chargepoints and this year, £20 million is available under the scheme to ensure more local authorities can benefit.

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