Electric vehicle industry says spring data shows installations are keeping pace with rising battery sales
Mon 15 Jul 2024 07.52 EDT
There are now almost 1m electric car chargers in the UK, according to data, a figure that the industry argues is proof that installations are keeping pace with increasing sales of battery vehicles.
There were 930,000 UK chargers at the end of June, according to ChargeUK, a lobby group, but the majority of these have been installed in homes and business premises, with only about 65,000 public chargers available.
Public chargers range from ultra-rapids at motorway services to slow chargers on lamp-posts.
The ChargeUK analysis showed that a new public charger was installed every 25 minutes in the spring quarter as companies raced to keep up with demand. Companies installed 5,100 public chargers during the second quarter of 2024, according to the data company Zapmap.
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