The UK added less than one new public charging point for each six new plug-in vehicles offered during 2017, automobile reveal can reveal.
A overall of 3,178 public connectors of diverse speeds went online over the 12 months from January to December last year – however the current department for transfer figures show that a lot more than 20,000 plug-in vehicles had been registered during the very first nine months of the exact same period.
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Data from charging facilities web site ZapMap (zap-map.com) shows that the UK ended December with 14,093 charging points in 4,960 locations, compared with 10,986 as well as 4,042 at the begin of 2017.
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The data includes public charging points that are complimentary to use, plus those run by card-based charging schemes such as Chargemaster’s POLAR network. The numbers break down into three classifications – sluggish chargers (usually those based on a three-pin socket connection), quick (7-22kW) as well as fast (50kW as well as higher). Tesla’s Supercharger network is excluded from the figures, since it’s restricted to owners of those vehicles.
The table (below) likewise shows the number of vehicles eligible for a plug-in grant licensed in the respective areas. This is based on data from the DfT, precise as much as the end of September 2017, as well as includes pure-electric, plug-in hybrid as well as hydrogen fuel-cell automobiles – however not standalone hybrids such as the Toyota Prius, or quadricycles like the Renault Twizy. It likewise excludes vans as well as motorcycles.
The DfT info shows that by the end of the third quarter of last year, there were almost 113,000 vehicles eligible for the plug-in grant licensed in the UK – 100,145 in England, 5,995 in Scotland, 2,365 in Wales, 1,610 in northern Ireland as well as 2,283 automobiles where the region was unknown.
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