Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 23rd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the infrastructure required to meet their goal for all new cars sold from 2030 to be electric vehicles.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 29th March 2023

In March 2022, the Department for Transport published its Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Strategy, which sets out its plans to accelerate the rollout of public EV chargepoints. The strategy states that the Government expects that approximately 300,000 public chargepoints will be installed across the UK by 2030.

The Department monitors progress and publishes data on the installation of public chargepoints, broken down by local authority areas, on a quarterly basis. The latest data, published on 1 March 2023, shows that public charging devices have more than tripled in four years from 10,300 devices in January 2019 to over 38,700. This includes more than 7,400 rapid devices. In 2022, an average of 723 public charging devices were added to the UK’s public charging network each month.

The Government is now focusing on two crucial sectors: ultra-rapid chargers on the strategic road network through the Rapid Charging Fund, and local on-street charging through the Local EV Infrastructure Fund and On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.

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