Department for Transport

As part of its monitoring of the UK’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the Department for Transport (DfT) releases monthly and quarterly statistics on the growth of charging devices across the country.

In order to do so, the DfT sources detailed charge point data from Zapmap, which the Department breaks down by local authority, power rating and location type.

The DfT’s releases, badged as Experimental Statistics by the Office for National Statistics, also utilise historic data from Zapmap going back to April 2020.

“There are no other sources with such comprehensive coverage against which we could verify the Zapmap devices.”
Department for Transport

Thanks to Zapmap data, the DfT produces high-level statistics on a monthly basis, with a more granular view released quarterly. The latter sees the DfT track the number and growth of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, as well as a number of other aspects.

The DfT leverages Zapmap data to produce its map showing the density of charging devices by local authority.

Indeed, the data sourced from Zapmap enables the DfT to cover public charging devices by charging speed, to categorise public charging devices by the destination of charging devices, and to create a breakdown of public charging devices per 100,000 of the population by UK country and region.

“To produce the official statistics, charging device location data is sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zapmap,” states the DfT’s official quarterly statistics release.

“There are no other sources with such comprehensive coverage against which we could verify the Zapmap devices.”

The result is a detailed analysis of the UK’s charging infrastructure, with comprehensive Zapmap data ultimately enabling the DfT to provide an official information source on the state of EV charging across the country.

The Department for Transport is a ministerial department supported by 24 agencies and public bodies. The DfT works with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. It plans and invests in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move.