Demand for on-street charging continues to grow, with requests for charge points on over 12,500 streets across the country made under Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain campaign.

First launched in August 2023, the campaign has been introduced to help UK households find accessible EV charging infrastructure, with particular consideration for the 40% of UK households who do not have a driveway.

Drivers can log their need for charging through a national database at electricstreets.co.uk. This information has already been shared with Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain partners, Char.gy, Connected Kerb and SureCharge. Local councils up and down the country have access to these requests through the online NEVIS service to help them identify the charging solutions required for their residents.

New research from Vauxhall and Cenex shows positive signs for infrastructure growth. The study found that 22.9% of British households who need electric vehicle infrastructure are now within a four-minute walk of a charge point, compared to 19.6% of households in 2024. This rise of 3.3 percentage points means that 300,000 more households have access to a charge point compared to August 2024, with infrastructure supply estimated to be one and a half years ahead of demand.

Some of the country’s more remote regions have also posted rises in infrastructure, with the Isles of Scilly increasing from 0% electric vehicle infrastructure coverage in August 2024 to 65.9% today. Further successes were found in Redbridge and Wrexham with 39.1% and 26.1% coverage growth respectively, while 29 local authorities already have enough charge points for their anticipated 2030 demand, representing 8% of Great Britain.

But the new report also highlighted that work is still needed on a national level to provide sufficient infrastructure, with 243 councils across Great Britain having low coverage of accessible chargers compared to the number of electric vehicles in the area. Rural areas, especially in Wales, Scotland and the East, were also shown to lag behind the rest of Britain in terms of charging access on motorways.

The research also suggests that the rate of installation of charging infrastructure has not kept up in the past year. Only two-thirds of the required additional infrastructure needed to keep up with electric vehicles was deployed in the past 12 months. At current utilisation, around 110,000 more near home charge points are needed in the right places to meet the projected electric vehicle demand by 2030.

Change is coming though. England’s LEVI Fund along with Scotland’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund (EVIF) estimate that at least 106,000 chargers will be deployed between them, providing optimism for the 12,500 drivers who have told Vauxhall they need charging near them.

Vauxhall’s latest Freedom of Information (FOI) research also provided room for optimism, as the number of councils with a dedicated policy officer for EV charging has risen from 31% in 2023 to 51% in 2025, while 44% of councils say they had installed at least one on-street charger by August this year compared to 31% in 2023.

Official Zapmap figures show that the number of public charge points across UK roads has increased by over 50% since the end of 2023, rising from 53,865 to over 84,000. However, regional disparity is still a concern, with 30% of these chargers found in London alone.

Steve Catlin, managing director, Vauxhall said: “The 12,500 registrations we have received to Electric Streets shows there is no silver bullet to provide a quick fix for drivers. We need to make sure all parties are pulling in the same direction to maintain the momentum we have seen over the past two years.”

Robert Evans, CEO at Cenex, added: “It has been a year since we collaborated with Vauxhall to put forward better metrics to measure the delivery of public EV infrastructure. Using these more relevant, actionable, scalable and measurable metrics, it is great to see the progress made in the last 12 months and assess at a granular level whether current public and private plans are helping meet the needs of residents and drivers.”

Local Authorities in Great Britain with the greatest electric vehicle infrastructure (EVI) coverage changes vs. 2024