According to foreign media reports, British charging company ChargeUK’s “Powering Ahead to 2030” white paper found that the UK installs a new public electric vehicle charging pile every 25 minutes, and the country’s charging network can drive 500 million miles a day.
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The report also provides recommendations to the new Labour government in the UK to optimize its electric vehicle strategy to accelerate the application of the technology.
Vicky Read, CEO of ChargeUK, explained: “In just over a decade, the UK’s charging industry has developed into a major player in the green economy, providing the infrastructure that drivers rely on for more than a million electric vehicles and rapidly expanding to provide the required charging services for 2030 and beyond.
“, ChargeUK’s analysis shows that there are more than 930,000 public, home and workplace charging piles in the UK, which can be used by 1.
1 million electric vehicles, and almost every electric vehicle has a charging pile.
, Photo source: ChargeUK, The UK’s electric vehicle charging network currently provides nearly 7 gigawatts of electricity per day, allowing each British electric vehicle to travel 580 miles per day, which is farther than the distance from London to Aberdeen, totaling more than 500 million miles.
, Moreover, the UK’s charging network is currently expanding rapidly, and the number of public charging piles has doubled in the past two years.
In the last quarter, a new charging station was installed in the UK every 25 minutes.
At present, the availability of public charging piles has exceeded the growth rate of new electric vehicles entering the market.
A report released by the British National Infrastructure Council in May 2024 shows that if this growth momentum continues, it is expected that the number of public charging piles in the UK will exceed 300,000 by 2030.
ChargeUK said that to maintain current growth rates and achieve the 2030 goals, the charging industry needs government support to speed up the installation of charging piles by eliminating delays in the grid, planning and licensing, and incorporating renewable energy electricity into the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligations Act (RTFO).
In addition, it is also crucial to reduce the charging price and sales price of electric vehicles.
To do this, the UK must unify value-added tax on charging, reduce electricity bills, improve signage, and support the use of new, used and fleet electric vehicles.
, In addition, the UK must promote private investment.
To achieve this goal, the country must clarify a fast charging fund, accelerate the construction of local electric vehicle infrastructure funds, solve the problem of rising fixed charges, and promote the construction of heavy truck charging infrastructure.
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