Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 15th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the total electrical output from electrical vehicle chargepoints in the UK in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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John Hayes
This question was answered on 18th November 2016

According to estimates made by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the amount of electricity used for road transport in the last 3 years for which data is available is:

2013 33 GWh

2014 68 GWh

2015 97 GWh

This is attributed to battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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