The UK’s largest provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Chargemaster, have predicted that there will be over one million electric cars on Britain’s roads by 2022.
This prediction is based on recent market developments that have seen a growth of just over seven percent in electric vehicles of new car registrations.
Chargemaster has been an increase the uptake of electric cars in recent years. David Martell, Chief Executive of Chargemaster attributes this to electric cars becoming “more competitive in terms of costs, and more practical in terms of range”. Accordingly, “the number of EVs on UK roads has increased from fewer than 2,000 in July 2012 to more than 100,000 today. We expect the UK electric vehicle parc to rise to more than one million by the middle 2022, but it could grow to as much as 1.4 million,” says Martell.
Martell predicts that: “over the next five years, a significant number of new models will have a range of more than 200 miles, with a lower purchase price than their earlier vehicles. Consumers will also be able to choose from larger range of electric vehicles, from manufacturers including Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Volvo, as well as significant new models such as the Jaguar I-PACE and Tesla Model 3.”
In May 2017, the UK’s 100,000th plug-in car was registered and to celebrate, Chargemaster drove a fleet of 25 electric vehicles from Greenwich to the home of the new EV Experience Centre in Milton Keynes.
