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EV CHARGING
OPPORTUNITY NOx The drive towards a green mobility model has created a future-proof revenue opportunity for electrical contractors.
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he cars we drive and the fuels we use are changing – rapidly. With an eye on climate change, the UK Government will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030. While the news has been challenged by old school motorists, it’s a positive development for the electric vehicle (EV) industry – and electrical contractors eager to break into a profitable and rapidly-expanding new market. Green mobility is the future of transport and the number of EVs on our roads is rising sharply. But it’s accepted that the UK’s charging infrastructure needs to expand significantly and that ‘range anxiety’ is still a real and uncomfortable emotion for EV motorists.
The latest statistics, compiled by Zap-Map – a continually-updated, UK-wide map of charging points – show that the UK urgently needs more chargers to cope with increasing demand. As of May 2021, there were 510,000 electric vehicles registered in the UK. And despite the pandemic, there were an astounding 175,000 EV registrations in 2020. This represented a 66% increase on 2019 data, a figure that is even more impressive when you consider the overall new car market declined by 29.4% last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). But while there are more than half a million EVs on our roads, there were just under 24,000 charging devices in May.
When it comes to EV charging, it pays to work with the experts.
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