While EV ownership is skyrocketing across the UK – with new registrations up 117 per cent this year, compared to 2020 – people living in urban centres, high-rise flats and council estates are significantly less likely to have access to a private driveway, making it difficult to install home-charging solutions.
Lambeth is collaborating with charging firm Connected Kerb to build 22 on-street EV chargers across 11 council estates in the borough to provide easy access to public charging, even for those without off-street parking.
It forms part of the council’s wider strategy to install more than 200 charge points by 2022 with the aim of ensuring every household with no access to off-street parking is within a five-minute walk of their nearest charge point.
Households which have access to a driveway currently make up 80 per cent of EV owners, with the remaining 20 per cent owned by those in houses or flats with no access to off-street parking.
These communities...