UK hits 50,000 EV charge point milestone – Automotive Blog

Zapmap, the UK’s main cost level mapping service, has confirmed that the UK has surpassed 50,000 electrical automobile charging factors.

Operated by en-route supplier MFG EV Energy, the 50,000th charging machine to be put in was an ultra-rapid machine at a service station in Weston-super-Mare.

With the 40,000th cost level solely put in in February, the most recent milestone additionally displays encouraging development in two key areas of the nation’s cost level infrastructure. 

Final week, Zapmap’s quarterly statistics confirmed that the variety of ultra-rapid cost factors within the UK elevated by 68% since September 2022, with the variety of sluggish chargers rising by virtually 68% as nicely.

Wanting forward, given the present fee of set up, Zapmap’s calculations present that the UK is more likely to attain 100,000 charging gadgets in August 2025.

“Hitting 50,000 public charging gadgets is a extremely essential milestone for the nation and illustrates the ocean change behind the elevated fee of cost level installations,” stated Melanie Shufflebotham, Co-founder & COO at Zapmap.

Ade Thomas, Founding father of World EV Day, added: “There was quite a lot of adverse press in regards to the variety of public chargers. 

“With the 50,000 threshold having been hit, on the UK’s journey to being an EV nation, we should always now begin actually speaking up what a terrific job the British inexperienced tech sector are doing bringing this large variety of EV chargers on-line, and all in tremendous fast time.”