Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
(asked on 15th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many charging points for electric vehicles there are in England; and how many of those are located in each region.
Figures on the total number of electric vehicle chargepoints are unavailable. Members of the public and businesses are able to install chargepoints without government support, and information on these are not routinely collected. Chargepoints that do receive government funding can be decommissioned or removed without notifying Government. The charging point platform Zap-map reports that, as at July 16th, there are 19,939 publicly available connectors in England, with the numbers in each region as follows:
Region | Number of chargepoint connectors | Percentage within England |
East Midlands | 1,299 | 7% |
East of England | 1,618 | 8% |
Greater London | 6,417 | 32% |
North East | 1,045 | 5% |
North West | 1,807 | 9% |
South East | 3,239 | 16% |
South West | 1,903 | 10% |
West Midlands | 1,388 | 7% |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 1,223 | 6% |