Official Statistics

Electric vehicle charging device grant scheme statistics: January 2025

Published 27 February 2025

About this release

This release presents official statistics in development on the number of grants awarded for the installation of electric vehicle charging devices in the United Kingdom as of 1 January 2025.

These statistics are released under the ‘official statistics in development’ label. For more information, see the About these statistics section.

The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) provides grants to support the use of electric vehicles, including the installation of charging devices in the UK. This summary covers statistics on selected grant schemes currently running, including the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG) and the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS). The On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) is closed to new applicants, but this publication still covers devices installed under the scheme and devices proposed for install in ongoing projects. This publication also covers the Domestic Recharging Scheme (DRS) and Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS), the predecessors to the EVCG.

The next quarterly report is scheduled for release in May 2025.

We welcome feedback on this quarterly publication. If you would like to provide feedback please email evci.stats@dft.gov.uk.

Headline figures

Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG)

As of 1 January 2025:

• the EVCG has funded the installation of 17,394 sockets since the scheme was launched in April 2022

• total EVCG funding, including non-socket charging infrastructure, represents £13.2 million

• the EVCG funded 8,869 sockets in the 12 months ending at 1 January 2025

Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS)

As of 1 January 2025:

• the WCS has funded the installation of 59,279 sockets, with a total grant value of £21.8 million, in workplace carparks (excluding schools) since the scheme started in 2016

• the WCS funded 6,565 sockets in workplace carparks (excluding schools) in the 12 months ending at 1 January 2025

• in addition to the above, the WCS funded 1,407 sockets in schools, with a grant value of £3.1 million since the schools scheme started in 2024

On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS)

As of 1 January 2025:

• completed ORCS projects represent 11,038 public charging devices installed, with a grant value of £39.8 million, across local authorities in the UK since the scheme’s launch in 2017

• projects completed in the 12 months ending at 1 January 2025 included 5,764 on-street charging devices

• £42.8 million has been awarded for 10,409 additional ORCS charging devices. This includes both devices installed, but where projects are yet to complete, and those to be installed in the future

Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG)

The EV chargepoint grant provides funding towards the cost of installing electric vehicle smart chargepoints at certain sites across the UK. It replaced the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) on 1 April 2022.

The EVCG can be broken down by the following grants:

• for landlords, grants of up to £350 per socket for residential or commercial properties that the applicant owns or manages but does not live within

• for car parks, grants of up to £30,000 off the costs of the infrastructure needed to install chargepoints in residential or staff and fleet car parks

• for renters and flat owners, grants of up to £350 for electric vehicle drivers who live in a flat or rent any residential property

Chart 1 - Cumulative growth of EVCG funded charging sockets, UK Table 1

Chart 1 is a bar chart that shows as of 1 January 2025, 17,394 sockets have been installed; this corresponds to approximately £13.2 million in grants. Flats and renters account for 9,719 sockets installed; this accounts for 56% of installations. Car parks account for 6,148 sockets installed, corresponding to 35% of installations. The remaining 9% is from landlords’ applications whose grants had installed 1,527 sockets.

Historic EVCG statistics did not include non-residential categories. They were included in the April and July 2024 publication of these statistics in error, increasing the EVCG grant funding and number of sockets installed under these applications by approximately 1%. To ensure consistency in the data published, data on all EVCG categories including non-residential categories are now included in these statistics and all data as of October 2024 have been revised. Ensure caution when comparing these revised figures to these previous editions. Previous editions are not revised as data were based from snapshots in time.

Further breakdowns of these statistics are available in Table 1 and Table 2, and more information about the EVCG can be found using Electric vehicle chargepoint and infrastructure grant guidance is available.

These statistics are taken from a database which records grant applications for administrative purposes. Grants can take several months to process and the most recent quarters are likely to be undercounted. The statistics should therefore be treated as provisional.

Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS)

The WCS is a voucher-based scheme designed to provide eligible organisations with support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging devices. If an application is successful, applicants are issued with a unique identification voucher, which can then be used to install multiple charging devices. In these statistics, the number of sockets installed is counted as sometimes there is one grant for up to four charging devices in the same workplace carpark, or more for WCS schools applications. More information on the WCS is available.

Chart 2 - Cumulative growth of WCS funded sockets, as of first of each quarter (Table 3)

Chart 2 is a bar chart that shows the increase in WCS sockets installed since the scheme started in late 2016. A total of 25,161 vouchers have been redeemed accounting for 59,279 sockets installed under the WCS grant. This equated to a total grant value of £21.8 million.

In the 12 months ending 1 January 2025, 3,901 vouchers were redeemed corresponding to the installation of 6,565 sockets. These had a grant value of £2.3 million.

These statistics are taken from a database which records grant applications for administrative purposes. Grants can take several months to process and the most recent quarters are likely to be undercounted. The statistics should therefore be treated as provisional.

For example, the number of WCS installations from July to September 2024 has increased by 739 since the last publication (October 2024), as more applications for that period have been processed.

Maps 1 and 2 - Regional distribution of total number of WCS socket installations and per 100,000 of population, UK, 1 January 2025

Map 1 shows the regional distribution of WCS funded sockets across the UK, excluding schools installations. The South East had the highest uptake with 8,613 sockets installed whilst Wales and Northern Ireland had the lowest, 2,224 and 1,024 respectively. Together, Wales and Northern Ireland accounted for 5.5% of total sockets installed under the WCS in the UK.

Map 2 shows the number of WCS funded sockets per 100,000 population in each UK region, excluding schools installations. London had the smallest rate of WCS installations, with 44 WCS installations per 100,000 population. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland also had fewer WCS installations per 100,000 than any English region except London.

Further detail on the regional breakdown of WCS socket numbers displayed in Maps 1 and 2 can be found in Annex B. Table 4 and Table 5 also provide a further breakdown of WCS sockets installed and their grant value in each local authority in the UK.

The schools scheme is a separate component of the WCS. As of 1 January 2025, the WCS has funded 1,407 in schools since the scheme started in 2024. These sockets have a corresponding grant value of £3.1 million. The month with the highest number of school socket installations was August 2024, which saw 424 sockets installed.

Table 6 shows more information on socket installations and grant values for WCS installations in schools.

Data for the number and value of grants and socket installations for WCS schools from January to September 2024 have been revised from January 2025. This is owing to an error in how voucher status was categorised in the production process causing incorrect inclusion of some applications. Overall, this led to an overestimate of 38 socket installations and approximately £100,000 in grant value. Entries for some months may still have increased by January 2025 as grants can take several months to process after installation.

On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS)

This scheme is closed to new applicants. This publication covers devices installed under the scheme, and devices proposed for installation under ongoing ORCS projects. ORCS was available to all UK local authorities to part-fund the capital costs of installing public local charging devices to ensure those without off-street parking can access reliable charging infrastructure.

ORCS projects are only counted as completed when all devices have been installed and final funding payments have been claimed by the local authority. As such, the total number of devices installed using ORCS funding could be larger than reported in completed projects, as those in partially completed projects are not included.

As of 1 January 2025, the ORCS has funded 11,038 public charging devices in completed projects since the scheme was established in 2017. This represents £39.8 million of grant funding across 165 councils, the details of which can be found in Table 7 and Table 8. Of these, 974 on-street devices were within projects completed in the previous 3 months.

Maps 3 and 4 - Distribution of local authorities which have been awarded ORCS funding for the UK and London, 1 January 2025

Map 3 shows councils in the UK and Map 4 highlights councils within Greater London. Both maps show whether councils have completed all projects which received ORCS funding, have had funding awarded to install devices, or have made no applications for ORCS funding.

Of the councils that have already completed projects which received ORCS funding, 38 have had further funding awarded to install a further 6,141 charging devices with a grant value of £19.8 million.

A further 53 local authorities have also been awarded grant funding, to provide 4,268 on-street public charging devices. This represents a grant value of £23 million.

The region with the highest number of ORCS approved device applications is London, accounting for 43.6% of all ORCS approved applications.

A table of councils which have applied for this funding can be found in Table 9 and Table 10. Table 11 shows ORCS devices by completion status across financial years.

Current levels of public charging provision by local authority area can be found in the public charging infrastructure statistics quarterly release series. These include the ORCS funded charging devices.

Previous domestic schemes

Since 1 April 2022, the EVHS is no longer open to new applicants and has been replaced with the EV chargepoint grant.

The EVHS provided grant funding for up to £350 of the cost of installing electric vehicle charging devices at domestic properties across the UK. More information on the EVHS is available.

Since September 2014, a total of 340,222 domestic charging devices have been installed under the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS), with a total grant value of £140.8 million. Information on grants for this scheme can be found in Table 12.

In addition to the EVHS, the Domestic Recharge Scheme (DRS) has also helped private plug-in vehicle owners offset the upfront cost of the purchase and installation of a dedicated recharging unit. This funded 40,333 domestic charging device installations between 2013 and 2014, before it was replaced by the EVHS. A quarterly breakdown of DRS installations can be found in Table 16.

Together, the EVHS and DRS contributed to the installation of 380,555 domestic electric vehicle charging devices across the UK.

Table 13 and Table 15 also provides a breakdown of EVHS charging devices and their grant value in each local authority in the UK whilst Table 14 provides a breakdown of charging devices installed in each postcode district.

About these statistics

These statistics are released under the ‘official statistics in development’ label – formerly called experimental statistics. Official statistics in development are official statistics that are temporarily undergoing a development and are being tested with users, in line with the standards of trustworthiness, quality, and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics.

Parts of these statistics are less established, such as more recent grant schemes including the EVCG and WCS school installations, the coverage for which is still being developed. These statistics are also still subject to testing in terms of their volatility and ability to meet customer needs. They do not necessarily meet the rigorous quality standards of accredited official statistics, formerly known as National Statistics, for example with respect to partial coverage, the use of administrative data, and under-counting in most recent quarters whilst applications for grants are still being processed.

Further details on the limitations of official statistics in development can be found at the Office for Statistics Regulation.

We welcome feedback from users of the statistics, particularly as we continue to develop our coverage of the grant schemes covered in this publication. This can be provided by emailing us.

A methodology note accompanying this release is available to provide additional context, background, and methodological information for this release series.

Background notes and limitations of data

This is a quarterly statistical release on electric vehicle infrastructure grant data. We welcome feedback from users of the statistics. This can be provided by emailing electric vehicle charging infrastructure statistics.

These statistics are taken from databases which record grant applications for administrative purposes. In some cases, grants can take several months to process with the most recent quarter likely to be undercounted for the EVCG and WCS.

ORCS projects are only counted as completed when all devices have been installed and final funding payments have been claimed by the local authority. As such, the total number of devices installed using ORCS funding is larger than reported in completed projects, as those in partially completed projects are not included.

The total number of domestic and workplace charging devices installed in the UK is likely to be different to the figures provided in this report as there is no requirement to register a privately funded charging device with the Government. We are also unable to confirm if the charging devices installed under the schemes are still operational. In addition, chargepoint manufacturers have to be approved by OZEV with some choosing not to be part of the grant schemes:

• approved manufacturers for the EVCG

• approved manufacturers for the WCS

These statistics present data on selected OZEV schemes which are currently running. OZEV offers a range of other support for the take-up of plug in vehicles, including further targeted schemes providing funding to support chargepoint infrastructure across the UK. More information can be found on the OZEV website.

Population figures by local authority are sourced from the Office for National Statistics Population Mid-Year Estimates for 2022. Household figures by local authority are sourced from the Office for National Statistics Estimated Number of Households in the UK in 2018. The local authority administrative geographies are from April 2023, available from the ONS Geography Portal.

The Department for Transport also publishes statistics on publicly available electric vehicle charging devices.

To hear more about DfT statistical publications as they are released, please follow us on X at DfTstats.

Annex A: EVCG funded charging sockets

Table 1 - Cumulative growth of EVCG funded charging sockets, UK (Chart 1)

As of 1 January 2025:

Region	WCS Total Sockets	WCS Sockets per 100,000 Population
United Kingdom	59,279	88
North East	2,802	104
North West	7,004	93
Yorkshire and the Humber	6,012	108
East Midlands	5,583	113
West Midlands	5,893	98
East of England	7,155	112
London	3,875	44
South East	8,613	92
South West	5,224	91
Wales	2,224	71
Scotland	3,870	71
Northern Ireland	1,024	54

Annex B: WCS sockets, by population and by region

Table 2 - WCS total sockets per 100,000 population per region (Maps 1 and 2)

As of 1 January 2025:

Date	Residential Car Park	Staff and Fleet Car Park	Uncategorised Car Park	Flats and Renters	Residential Landlord	Commercial Landlord	Uncategorised Landlord
01/04/2022	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
01/07/2022	0	0	102	466	0	0	22
01/10/2022	30	14	437	965	83	0	46
01/01/2023	139	307	502	1,377	125	46	53
01/04/2023	422	840	502	1,847	224	85	53
01/07/2023	654	1,254	502	2,378	400	105	53
01/10/2023	1,015	1,762	502	3,023	489	132	53
01/01/2024	1,323	2,192	502	3,700	590	165	53
01/04/2024	1,539	2,645	502	4,353	749	212	53
01/07/2024	1,708	3,138	502	5,855	845	243	53
01/10/2024	1,800	3,489	502	8,010	1,028	265	53
01/01/2025	1,850	3,796	502	9,719	1,193	281	53

Next update

The next quarterly report will be released in May 2025.

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