Close to 1 million such electric car chargers in the UK with a new public charger installed every 25 minutes; this growth is designed to back the increase in electric cars’ sales as the UK seeks to slash carbon emissions.

The number of chargers available in UK approaches nearly 1 million, sole chargers for electric vehicles. These chargers are so important, as these electric vehicles remain juiced up. The number of chargers has been increasing rapidly to keep up with increased EV purchases by a majority of people.

The vast majority—some 930,000—are owned by people and businesses for their homes and workplaces. There are far fewer, about 65,000, which are available to the public. Public chargers range from very fast ones at motorway stations to slower ones fitted to street lamps.

In spring, every 25 minutes, there was an addition to new public charging. The companies added them to any available open space with city rushes of various businesses, coping with the perfectionist growing demand for chargers. They had added 5,100 new public chargers from April to June 2024.

Changing from the use of petrol and diesel cars becomes more critical to becoming electric cars that don’t pollute the environment, measuring in reducing the gases that cause global warming. Some people have worried about how there aren’t enough places to charge electric cars.

Vicky Read heads the team at ChargeUK. She said this data showed those fears could soon be a thing of the past. “In a little more than ten years the UK’s charging network has grown a lot—now a big part of the clean energy economy, helping over a million EV drivers today, and getting ready for more in the future,” Read said.

There are about 1.1 million electric vehicles driving on the UK roads right now. In the first half of this year alone, there were 167,000 new electric car sales, which is 9% more than last year. But electric cars still make only about 16.6% of all car sales. Some people are still hesitating because, at least for the first time, electric cars can be more expensive, and interest rates are going up.

The government had set a goal of having 300,000 public chargers by 2030. ChargeUK’s study reveals private companies believe they can meet those numbers even though it represents one of the hardest aspects of the goal.

Labour, the opposition political party in the UK, also promised to speed things up regarding how chargers are coming quicker. Here is what they said in their manifesto for the country if they win the next election. However, it’s not clear exactly how they will do it.

There are concerns, however, with the people making the charge points. They want more from the government than just that; actually, they say things might slow down if the government doesn’t help more. They wish that the government could make it easier for someone to connect chargers to the electricity grid and thus get permissions to put the devices at different public places.

Vicky Read added, “Even though things are looking good, there’s still a lot of work to do. We need to keep growing fast so that by 2030, chargers are enough and are placed everywhere where they are needed. It supports keeping the market for EVs robust and makes sure we keep building the right things.”

Shell Recharge, a major oil company, has almost 9,000 chargers, the most in the UK. Pod Point and Connected Kerb come a close second, at around 5,000 chargers. One of the businesses that is becoming highly competitive is that of providing the highest number of places where one could charge an electric car.