Thirty-four per cent increase in public charging devices in one year

The Department for Transport has released its latest statistics for charging devices, which shows that in one year, the number of installed public devices has increased by 8,710, a 34% increase. The number of rapid charging or above devices increased by 30%, an additional 1,472 public devices installed.

The data, which is released quarterly, focuses on charging provision from July to September 2022. It finds that compared to 1 July 2022, the total installed devices increased by 2,626, an increase of 8%.

Rapid charging or above devices increased by 421, an increase of 7%.

There was an increase in total charging devices and those rated rapid or above in all regions of the UK, except the North East.

All regions, apart from North East, across the UK saw an increase in total charging devices between July and September 2022. West Midlands had the greatest increase at 16.7%, whilst Northern Ireland had the smallest increase at 4.3%. London had the greatest increase in absolute number of devices at 546 devices, contributing to 20% of the increase in devices across the UK in this period. After having the largest increase in the previous quarter (14.2% from April to July 2022), North East saw a decrease in the number of chargepoints by 1.1%, this represents a decrease of 13 devices.

The data shows that there are now 34,637 public electric vehicle charging devices installed in the UK, within which 6,395 were rapid devices or above, and 19,746 were fast chargers. 17,179 are “destination” chargers, this represents 50% of all charging devices, and 11,218 were designated as “on street” chargers, this represents 32% of all charging devices.