Zapmap has revealed new year-end figures for EV cost level installations in 2024
Zapmap has revealed new year-end figures for EV cost level installations in 2024. The figures present one other 12 months of file progress within the variety of cost factors put in throughout the UK over the previous 12 months, with the very best progress being seen in ultra-rapid (150kW+) gadgets and charging hubs designed for drivers seeking to recharge their automobile as shortly as doable on longer journeys.
Greater than 20,000 new cost factors have been put in all through 2024, bringing the overall quantity throughout the nation to 73,699 — a year-on-year improve of 38%. The speed of set up of cost factors has additionally grown from a mean of 1400 per thirty days to 1650 per thirty days.
Cost level progress was significantly robust within the ultra-rapid section (150kW+), which noticed a rise of 84% in installations for the reason that finish of 2023. These hubs are being rolled out not solely at Motorway Service Areas but in addition in assorted places resembling retail parks, automobile parks and farm outlets, and our survey exhibits these are proving more and more well-liked with EV drivers. There are greater than 7,000 150kW+ chargers, with a complete of greater than 14,000 over 50kW now accessible, whereas the variety of hubs (six or extra 50kW chargers) rose from 264 on the finish of 2023 to 537 on the finish of 2024.
Final month, the Nationwide Audit Workplace stated that the variety of public cost factors was on monitor to satisfy Authorities targets by 2030. Extra broadly, Zapmap’s charging statistics present encouraging progress throughout all of the charging use instances from the en-route chargers referenced above to vacation spot and on-street chargers, with progress being made in addressing regional inequalities.
Vacation spot chargers — which allow EV drivers to cost whereas they cease, moderately than stopping to cost — proceed to be boosted throughout the UK. There are 12,000 further chargers now accessible at locations resembling eating places, motels, retail automobile parks and leisure areas throughout the UK.
Whereas the supply of on-street chargers — supporting these EV drivers with out off-street parking — has grown, 72% of those chargers are concentrated in Higher London. Many different areas resembling Coventry and Liverpool even have good native availability, however general provision at a neighborhood degree continues to be variable. With the LEVI (Native Electrical Car Infrastructure) authorities funded initiatives beginning to come to fruition, there needs to be a extra equitable distribution of on-street charging provision in the direction of the tip of 2025.
Concurrently, Zapmap’s statistics present vital progress within the distribution of en-route chargers exterior London this 12 months: 9 out of 12 geographical areas of the UK now have over 1,000 50kW+ chargers. Wales and the North West proceed to be much less properly coated, though they’ve made good progress over the course of 2024, whereas the tempo of installations in Northern Eire continues to lag.
Zapmap’s new charging statistics come alongside information from the Society of Motor Producers & Merchants confirming file gross sales of recent pure-electric vehicles in 2024. Greater than 380,000 pure-electric vehicles have been bought within the UK final 12 months, greater than 19% of all new vehicles bought in 2024. This brings the overall variety of pure-electric vehicles on the UK’s roads to 1,360,802, up from 978,832 on the finish of 2023, representing a 39% progress within the parc.
Zapmap’s annual driver survey, launched final month, confirmed a mean satisfaction score of 87% for drivers of electrical vehicles, with fewer than 3% saying they might return to a petroleum or diesel automobile. While round 80% of EV drivers cost at dwelling, from the 800,000+ dwelling chargers put in in driveways, 51% of EV drivers use the general public community a minimum of as soon as per thirty days, reflecting the continued significance of public infrastructure. There stay some issues, primarily round reliability and availability of public chargers, however 61% of respondents imagine that the general public charging infrastructure has improved over the previous 12 months. In parallel, Zapmap information additionally reveals that by the tip of 2024, over two and a half million profitable cost periods have been accomplished in a month. This displays each the advance in reliability and the numerous general progress in charging infrastructure, which has elevated by 38% over the past 12 months.
Melanie Shufflebotham, Co-founder & COO at Zapmap, stated:
“Final 12 months was one other file 12 months for charging infrastructure progress with en-route charging factors specifically being put in forward of the expansion in electrical automobile gross sales.
“As we transfer into 2025, we are able to count on to see the advantages of the PCPR shopper laws coming into impact mixed with the impression of LEVI funded initiatives reaching native authorities and bringing extra equitable entry to charging gadgets.
“Affirmation on a robust and clear ZEV mandate, following the federal government’s just lately communicated session, can even assist to carry certainty and confidence to each infrastructure suppliers and UK drivers that the transition is occurring now.”
SOURCE: Zapmap
