Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of charge points required to support the introduction of (a) large commercial electric vehicles and (b) electric trucks in the context of the 2050 net zero target.
There are various estimates about the numbers of chargepoints required for HGVs. The Climate Change Committee suggested that 340,000 depot-based chargers would be needed by 2050 and over 900 ultra-rapid chargers. The European Automobile Manufacturer’s Association suggested that the UK would require 2,450 ultra-rapid chargers by 2025, increasing to 8,200 by 2030. Recent research for Transport and Environment suggested that a total of 400,000 chargers would be required by 2050, 93% of which would be located at depots.