Policy paper

UK electric vehicle infrastructure strategy

The vision and action plan for electric vehicle charging infrastructure within the United Kingdom.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 25 March 2022
• Last updated: 31 March 2022
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  1. 31 March 2022

     Numbers of battery electric vehicles updated from 340,000 to 450,000 to reflect March 2022 figures, on pages 16 and 25. Gridserve investment commitment corrected from £100 million to £1 billion on page 27.

  2. 25 March 2022

     First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Taking charge: the electric vehicle infrastructure strategy

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This strategy sets out our vision and action plan for the rollout of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the UK, ahead of the phase out dates. We intend:

• to end the sale of new petrol and diesel petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030
• for all new cars and vans to be fully zero emission at the tailpipe by 2035

Our strategy was informed by:

• engagement carried out in 2021 with transport and energy stakeholders and local authorities
• Public electric vehicle charging infrastructure: drivers without access to off-street parking, research conducted on behalf of the Department for Transport by Britain Thinks
• Response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) market study into UK electric vehicle charging