Data show 5% increase in EV chargepoints since October

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The Department for Transport have released their electric vehicle public charging infrastructure statistics for the last quarter, October to December 2024, with the data provided by Zapmap.

As of 1st January 2025, there were 73,334 public electric vehicle charging devices installed in the UK, with 20 per cent of these (14,448) having 50kW of power or more. Compared to 1st October 2024, there is an increase of 5 per cent (3,292 devices installed), and compared to 1st January 2024, this is an increase of 37 per cent. 19,657 charging points have been installed since 1st January 2024.

The biggest speed category was 3kW up to 8KW, which accounted for 57 per cent of all charging devices (41,678 units), as of 1st January 2025. Ten per cent of all charging points were more than 150kW, at 7,011 devices. This was the smallest category.

Most (49 per cent) of public chargepoints were found at the ‘destination’; that is, points located at the end of an EV journey or where a driver might stop for a while, such as car parks, leisure, education areas, transport areas, hotels, and restaurants. ‘On street’ charging account for 26,318 of all charging devices (36 per cent).

There is an uneven distribution of charging infrastructure across the country, one of the reasons being that some local governments have asked for government funding for charging devices, and some have not. London had the. Highest level of charging provision per 100,000 of population, with 250 devices per 100,000. In comparison, Northern Ireland had the lowest level of chargepoints in the UK, with 36 devices per 100,000, followed by the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber, each with 66 devices per 100,000. Comparatively, the average number of devices in the UK was 108 per 100,000.

From October to December 2024, the North East had the biggest percentage increase in chargepoint devices, at 12.5 per cent more, but the South East had the greatest increase by number, with 706 more devices installed. The smallest percentage increase was 1.3 per cent in London.

 

The next quarterly report will be published in April 2025.