Transport Secretary Grant Shapps working on a BP EV charging point
(Picture: Department for Transport)The electric vehicle market in the UK will be powered up by a further £1.5 billion investment in charge points by the end of the decade, it has been announced.
Energy giant BP is set to spend an extra £1 billion to triple its number of charge points by 2030 from 9,000 to close to 30,000, while in a separate initiative, the UK government will channel an extra £500 million into the market to increase the number of its charging points tenfold to 30,000 by the end of the decade.
