• Drivers have registered the need for on-street charge points to be installed on over 12,500 streets across the country

• Vauxhall has invited drivers to register the need for on-street charging since it launched its Electric Streets of Britain campaign in 2023

• New research by Vauxhall and Cenex has found that supply of both near home charging and journey charging are further ahead of demand than they were last year

• 22.9% of UK households are now within a four-minute walk of a near home charger, up from 19.6% in 2024 – this is equivalent to 300,000 more households having access to a charge point than last year

• Latest registration figures come as new Freedom of Information research shows that the number of UK councils with a dedicated policy officer for EV charging has risen by 20% in the past two years   

• Number of public charge points in the UK has risen by 56% since the end of 2023 to over 84,000 devices – however, 30% of these are found in London1

• Approximately 110,00 new near-home chargers are required to hit projected electric vehicle demand for 2030, according to Vauxhall and Cenex

• Read the full report from Vauxhall and Cenex, and register the need for on-street charging near you at www.electricstreets.co.uk

Over 12,500 streets across the UK have been registered for needing on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging installed near them via Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain campaign, since it first launched in August 2023.

Vauxhall introduced Electric Streets of Britain to help UK households find accessible EV charging infrastructure, with particular consideration for the 40% of UK households who do not have a driveway.2

Upon launch, Vauxhall invited drivers to log their need for charging through a national database at electricstreets.co.uk. This information has since been shared with Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain partners, char.gy, Connected Kerb and SureCharge. Local councils up and down the country have access to these requests through the online NEVIS service to help them identify the charging solutions required for their residents.

The latest update comes as new research from Vauxhall and Cenex (Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies), shows that 22.9% of British households who need electric vehicle infrastructure are now within a four-minute walk of a charge point, compared to 19.6% of households in 2024. This rise of 3.3 percentage points means that 300,000 more households have access to a charge point compared to August 2024, with infrastructure supply estimated to be one and a half years ahead of demand.

Some of the country’s more remote regions also showed positive signs of infrastructure growth, with the Isles of Scilly increasing from 0% electric vehicle infrastructure coverage in August 2024 to 65.9% today. Further successes were found in Redbridge and Wrexham with 39.1% and 26.1% coverage growth respectively, while 29 local authorities already have enough charge points for their anticipated 2030 demand, representing 8% of Great Britain.

However, the new report also highlighted that work is still needed on a national level to provide sufficient infrastructure, with 243 councils across Great Britain having low coverage of accessible chargers compared to the number of electric vehicles in the area. Rural areas, especially in Wales, Scotland and the East, were also shown to lag behind the rest of Britain in terms of charging access on motorways.

The research also suggests that the rate of installation of charging infrastructure has not kept up in the past year. Only two-thirds of the required additional infrastructure needed to keep up with electric vehicles was deployed in the past 12 months. At current utilisation, around 110,000 more near home chargepoints are needed in the right places to meet the projected electric vehicle demand by 2030.

But figures suggest a surge is coming. England’s LEVI Fund and Scotland’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund (EVIF) estimate that at least 106,000 chargers will be deployed between them, providing optimism for the 12,500 drivers who have told Vauxhall they need charging near them.

Vauxhall’s latest Freedom of Information (FOI) research also provided room for optimism, as the number of councils with a dedicated policy officer for EV charging has risen from 31% in 2023 to 51% in 2025, while 44% of councils say they had installed at least one on-street charger by August this year compared to 31% in 2023.

Figures from Zapmap show that the number of public chargepoints across UK roads has increased by over 50% since the end of 2023, rising from 53,865 to over 84,000. However, regional disparity is still a concern, with 30% of these chargers found in London alone.

Steve Catlin, Managing Director, Vauxhall said: “The country has made great strides in growing its electric vehicle infrastructure since Electric Streets of Britain launched in 2023. Not only have we seen a huge rise in the number of public chargers, but more importantly their installation is increasingly being deployed tactically for drivers who need them on a local level.

“While the ongoing rise in councils who have policy officers dedicated to overseeing charging is encouraging, the 12,500 registrations we have received to Electric Streets shows there is no silver bullet to provide a quick fix for drivers. We need to make sure all parties are pulling in the same direction to maintain the momentum we have seen over the past two years.”

Robert Evans, CEO, Cenex added: “It has been a year since we collaborated with Vauxhall to put forward better metrics to measure the delivery of public EV infrastructure. Using these more relevant, actionable, scalable and measurable metrics, it is great to see the progress made in the last 12 months and assess at a granular level whether current public and private plans are helping meet the needs of residents and drivers.”

Last month, Vauxhall welcomed leading property website Zoopla into the Electric Streets of Britain campaign, launching services across its web and app platforms to help drivers moving home find properties with accessible charging. The industry-first collaboration sees Zoopla host a suite of new features that provide vital information on the EV charging credentials of homes listed on its online services, and how far a property is from the closest public charger.

Vauxhall is committed to electrifying Britain and has offered an electric version of every car and van in its line-up since 2024. Every electric car in the Vauxhall range is currently under £40,000, as well as being eligible for the UK government’s Electric Car Grant (ECG), saving customers £1,500 off the list price.4

For more information, visit electricstreets.co.uk  

Local Authorities in Great Britain with the greatest electric vehicle infrastructure (EVI) coverage changes vs. 2024

Vauxhall, Freedom of Information research between May – July 2025, issued to 414 councils across the United Kingdom

1 Zapmap, Electric Vehicle Charging Statistics 2025 (https://www.zap-map.com/ev-stats/how-many-charging-points)

2 TfL Feasibility Study into Electric Vehicle Uptake and the Impacts of Associated Infrastructure (Source: TfL Electric Vehicle Charging Study)

3 Cenex, Are we nearly there yet? 2025 (https://nevis.cenex.co.uk/metrics)

4 Excluding LCV-derived Vauxhall Vivaro Life Electric at the present time