A new electric vehicle (EV) charge point is now being installed every 25 minutes, according
to research by provider ChargeUK.
In a ‘white paper’, ‘Powering Ahead to 2030’, ChargeUK has concluded that there are now
nearly a million home, work and public charge points in the UK today, almost one for every
fully EV.
The current infrastructure can provide enough power to enable every EV in the UK to drive
580 miles a day, 25 times the average daily car journey and further than the distance between
London to Aberdeen.
If current growth continues, the research has also argued, the roll out of public chargers will
track ahead of EV adoption and there will be more than 300,000 public charge points in the
UK by 2030.
To enable the charging sector to stay on track for 2030, ChargeUK has urged the new Labour
government to remove Grid, planning and permitting barriers; to make owning and charging
an EV easy and affordable; and to clarify and speed up existing public subsidy schemes.
Vicky Read, chief executive of ChargeUK, said: ‘While the outlook is positive, there is still
work to be done. Delivering what the UK needs by 2030 means continuing to grow at pace,
ensuring that deployment ramps up in locations that have been hampered by delays, and
ensuring the UK has a thriving EV market, so that investment in infrastructure continues at
scale.’
