Home and community EV charging stats
Data on home and community charging is not officially reported centrally. This page uses available sources, combined with data from the annual Zapmap EV Charging Survey, to estimate the number of home chargers and the number of these which have been made available to EV drivers via some form of sharing. This data on this page is based on information from the end of 2024, and will be updated on a quarterly basis.
How many home EV chargers are there in the UK?
As of the end of 2024, there are around one million charge points installed at homes with driveways across the UK.
There is no official register of home charge points in the UK, and this number is estimated from the last available government statistics on installation of chargers under the EVHS scheme combined with car registration data from SMMT, and data from the annual Zapmap EV Charging Survey which tracks the number of EV drivers that have a home charger installed.
This number potentially underestimates the number of home chargers, as it is focused on BEV (battery electric vehicles) and does not include any home chargers which may have been installed for the 380k new PHEV (plug-in hybrid) drivers from March 2022 to Dec 2024. Adjustment has been made for households with two BEVs.
How many households have access to a driveway?
There are 28.4 million households in the UK, at the end of 2023, and, according to Field Dynamics analysis, 67.2% of them have access to a driveway or dedicated parking space close to their house. This means that there are around 19 million hhlds which could enjoy the benefits of home charging should they have a car and make the switch to electric.
Conversely 32.8% of households, or around 9 million households, do not have access to a driveway and therefore, if they have an electric car, they are not able to install a charge point and will need to seek alternative ways to charge.
What proportion of EV drivers do not have a charge point at home?
There is no official register of home chargers, but results from Zapmap EV Charging Survey suggest that around 20% of current EV drivers do not have a charge point at home. This is considered a barrier to many but as the transition to electric cars progresses, this is likely to grow towards the overall proportion of 33% of households that do not have a driveway.
Households with a home charger enjoy both convenience and the financial benefits of charging from home. However even if a driver does not have a driveway there are other options for "Near home charging".
These include having a home charger installed which is accessed either through some form of through-pavement solution or charging bridge. Another option is to access community charging by sharing a home charger installed at another EV driver's house. In addition there is an increasingly amount of public charging available locally with on-street chargers or more broadly in local car parks or charging hubs. The provision of near home charging does vary significantly across the country.
What proportion of households without a driveway is near to a public charger?
In 2024, 24% of all households which do not have a driveway, were within five minutes walk of a public charging point according to the latest Field Dynamics report. This has increased from 17% in 2022 and 12% in 2020.
This UK-wide average hides a significant level of disparity between different geographical areas with London Boroughs having an average coverage of more than 60% whilst for the rest of the country the average is less than 20%. Within this there are Local Authorities such as Brighton & Hove (83%) and Coventry (75%) which have good coverage. Details and methodology for each individual local authority can be seen in the interactive map.
How many shared or community charge points are there?
There are a number of organisations which enable EV drivers to share their home charger either with the local community or visitors to the area. The two main established players are Co charger and JustCharge.
Co charger focuses on neighbourhood charging with the idea that sharing chargers will enable many more people who do not have the ability to have a home charge to switch to an EV.
In contrast, JustCharge provides an alternative to finding a public charger when in a new place, offering parking and charging space to visitors.
Recently a couple of new organisations have set-up: go pluggable and Mobula Ray with similar EV charging sharing business models.
There is no official register but based on information from the organisations in Jan 2025, Co charger had 6,000 hosts and JustCharge 3,000.
It is not clear whether these are unique shared chargers, or whether home owners register on multiple platforms. If they were unique, it would mean that just under 1% of EV drivers share their home chargers - an opportunity for growth.
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