The UK government spent £38.38m on the installation of 97,287 new domestic electric vehicle (EV) chargers over the past 12 months, according to new figures from the Department for Transport (DfT).
This figure is part of its statistical release on the productivity of the Domestic Recharging Scheme (DRS) and Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS), which were predecessors to the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG), which is also mentioned.
Other schemes covered in the release include the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) and the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS).
The new data also revealed that the OZEV had installed 972 sockets since its launch in April this year, and that the WCS has been responsible for 15,075 workplace EV chargepoint installations since 1 October 2021, marking a 51% increase from the previous 12-month period.
Under the ORCS, the government reportedly funded 3,281 public charging devices, with funding already confirmed for 10,255 more.
What’s more, the EVCG provided financing for the implementation of 972 chargepoints, representing a total spend of £682,343, with flats or rented accommodation representing 58% of these installations.
The government claims that the EVHS has resulted in the deployment of 335,190 domestic charging devices since 2014, which cost a total of £139m.
The data for the release comes from a database owned by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). As the body can take several months to process some applications, the government claims this delay could affect some of these figures.
Moreover, the government provided some installation figures according to regional placement. The South East saw the highest number of chargepoints delivered, with 62,465 – representing 19% of all installations.
The South East was also revealed to have 1,694 EVHS devices per 100,000 households, the most of any area in the UK. The two lowest scoring areas on this front were Northern Ireland and London, with 772 and 751, respectively.
According to the release, the UK average for EVHS devices per 100,000 households is 1,224 chargepoints.
Of the councils that have already completed installations under the ORCS, 36 have been awarded additional funding already for 5,652 new chargepoints, which the government values at £15.1m.
In addition to this, 83 new councils have been awarded £24m for 4,603 on-street charging devices, with London accounting for 66% of all ORCS installations.
