{"id":2120,"date":"2020-12-06T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mr-electric.co.uk\/cornwall\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2020-12-06T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:57:53","slug":"regional-disparities-in-electric-car-charging-points-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr-electric.co.uk\/cornwall\/regional-disparities-in-electric-car-charging-points-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional disparities in electric car-charging points revealed."},"content":{"rendered":"

A great Article by Jasper Jolly in the Guardian<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>showing the EV Charger numbers across the regions.<\/p>\n

London and the south-east received 45% of new charger capacity in the past year, analysis shows.<\/p>\n

London and the south-east have benefited disproportionately from the installation of new electric car charge points in the last year, amid a push to be ready the UK for the\u00a0ban on internal combustion engine cars in 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two regions together received 45% of new charger capacity in the year to October, well in excess of their 27% share of the population, according to a Guardian analysis of Zap Map data which shows charging points across the UK published by the Department for Transport.<\/p>\n

Every other region received a lower proportion of new charge points installed during the year to October than their population would suggest.<\/p>\n

Public car-charging infrastructure was a key part of Boris Johnson\u2019s plans for a \u201cgreen industrial revolution\u201d published last week.\u00a0Johnson\u2019s 10-point plan<\/a>\u00a0included \u00a31.3bn of investment in car charging, although only \u00a3800m of that was new spending. Further details are expected to be outlined in the chancellor\u2019s one-year spending review this week.<\/p>\n

The 2030 ban means that all new car buyers across the UK within a decade will need easy access to charging infrastructure, but the current public charging network is already skewed towards London in particular.<\/p>\n

There are 63 public chargers per 100,000 people in the capital, more than double the average of the rest of the UK, according to the data compiled by Zap Map. Northern Ireland had the lowest, with only 16.8 per 100,000 people \u2013 although other regions with a lower proportion of urban residents may be able to depend more on\u00a0charging at home<\/a>\u00a0in off-street parking spaces.<\/p>\n