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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Record number of public electric vehicle chargers installed in UK in 2022

Electric car charging
Boris Johnson’s government announced a target of 300,000 publicly available chargers in the Uk by 2030. Photograph: Andrew Harker/Alamy

British companies installed a record number of public electric car chargers during 2022 as they raced to dominate a fast-growing and potentially lucrative market.

There were more than 8,700 public chargers installed in the UK during the year to 22 December, bringing the total available to more than 37,000, according to Zap-Map, a data company. That represented a 30% year-on-year increase, slower than the 38% annual growth in sales of battery electric cars during the year to November.

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