EV charging statistics 2023
The UK’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is continually growing and changing shape to meet the needs of EV drivers. Through the data collected to drive the Zapmap app, Zapmap tracks these changes to provide the EV charging statistics below. The statistics, which detail how many electric charging points in the UK there are updated on a monthly basis.
At the end of April 2023, there were 42566 electric vehicle charging points across the UK, across 24909 charging locations. This represents a 37% increase in the total number of charging devices since April 2022.Last month, 2080 new EV charging devices were added to the Zapmap database.
These figures show how many electric charging points in the UK there are that are part of the country’s public EV charging infrastructure. However, they do not include the many charge points installed at home or at workplace locations, which are estimated to be more than 400,000. Some of these EV charging points are available to the public in some form via community or visitor charging.The charging network with the most charge points is ubitricity, with its network of lamppost chargers. Next up is Pod Point, a network of destination chargers found mainly in retail car parks, particularly supermarkets. In third place is bp pulse, which has an extensive network of rapid and destination chargers across the UK.
The geographical area that has the most EV charging points is Greater London with 13436, followed by the South East with 5346 and Scotland with 4005. As of April 2023, there are 7928 rapid and ultra-rapid charging devices, across 4390 rapid and ultra-rapid charging locations in the UK.
The network with the most rapid or ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging points is InstaVolt, which had 1080 charge points at the end of April 2023.
After InstaVolt, Tesla operates the most rapid or ultra-rapid charging points in the UK, with 1001, followed by bp pulse with 979.
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