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GOVERNMENT FAILS TO HIT MOTORWAY SERVICES HIGH-POWER EV CHARGER TARGET BY END OF
2023


2nd Jan 2024
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The Government has not hit its target of having six or more rapid or ultra-rapid
electric vehicle chargers at every motorway service area in England by the end
of 2023, new research conducted by the RAC shows.

Just 46 (39%) of 119 motorway services reviewed by the RAC on Zapmap now have
the target number of chargers above 50kW to serve the UK’s growing fleet of
battery-electric vehicles which should have exceeded the 1m milestone by the end
of 2023.1/2

The number of rapid chargers has grown from just 27 (23%) at the end of April.

Since the end of spring a further 178 high-powered chargers have been installed
at motorway services. Positively, there are now more than 400 ultra-rapid
chargers at services which means more than half (55%) can now offer some of the
fastest possible charging speeds to drivers.

Only 18 service areas have no rapid charging above 50kW, but worryingly four
have no charging facilities whatsoever: Leicester Forest on both sides of the
M1, Tebay South on the M6, and Barton Park on the A1(M).

There are now nearly 700 (693) Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors – the
most common charging connector – at the 101 services offering high-powered
charging, an increase of 225, or 48%.

For the CHAdeMO connectors predominantly used by Nissan and Renault electrics
cars, there are now almost 300 (282), up 32% compared to the end of April.

Seventy per cent of all high-power motorway charging is now ultra-rapid,
reducing the time drivers need to spend ‘filling up’ significantly.

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Encouragingly, there are now 14 services in England which have more than 12 such
devices – up from only six in the spring.

The Moto-run services at Exeter on the M5 has the most high-powered chargers of
all motorway services, with 24 devices. Looking at all high-powered motorway
chargers collectively, there are currently an average of five (4.9) devices at
all 119 service areas in England – up from 3.4 at the end of April.

The Government’s target of having at least six rapid chargers above 50kW by the
end of 2023, with some having more than 12 is set out in its ‘Taking charge: the
electric vehicle infrastructure strategy’ published on 25 March 2022.3

Its intention was to accelerate the roll-out of high-powered chargers on the
strategic road network through the £950m Rapid Charging Fund so that EV drivers
have confidence in the ability to undertake longer journeys, but it wasn’t until
early December 2023 the Government announced it would be providing £70m in
grants for a pilot scheme involving upgrades at 10 motorway service stations.

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As of November 2023 charging statistics from Zapmap show the UK has 53,029
charging devices of which a fifth (19% or 9,992) are rapid or ultra-rapid.

Looking at this figure against the RAC’s research reveals that only 6% (581) of
all these high-powered chargers are at motorways services.

The Government says it expects there will be around 300,000 public chargers of
all speeds as a minimum by 2030 and more than 6,000 high-powered chargers along
strategic roads by 2035.

Forecasts in the Competition and Markets Authority’s ‘Building a comprehensive
and competitive electric vehicle charging sector that works for all drivers’
suggest that at least 280,000-480,000 public charge points will be needed by
2030.4

RAC EV spokesperson Simon Williams said: “It’s clear from our research that the
Government has fallen well short of its target of having six high-powered
chargers at every motorway service area in England. While that’s the case, some
very good progress has been made since the end of April when we last carried out
our survey, with four-in-10 services (39%) now having met or exceeded the target
number of chargers, compared to just under a quarter (23%) eight months ago.

“There is undoubtedly an eagerness among charge point companies and motorway
service operators to install these types of units but unfortunately, it’s often
the high-power cabling to the grid that’s the major barrier which is out of
their hands.

“More clearly needs to be done to make this process simpler than it is
currently. Hopefully once the Government’s Rapid Charging Fund kicks fully into
action some of these hurdles will be overcome.

“We continue to believe that the wide availability of ultra-rapid charging is
crucial in giving both current and future EV drivers confidence to know they can
easily make journeys beyond the range of their vehicles in a time-efficient
way.”

Do you own an EV? If so, what challenges have you faced when you have been
driving around the UK? Leave your comments below.


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1 Review carried out on 21 December 2023

2 RAC estimate based on number of cars registered as new by the SMMT

3
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1065576/taking-charge-the-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-strategy.pdf

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electric-vehicle-charging-market-study-final-report/final-report

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