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How Facilities Managers Should Act Now To Make Public Electric-Vehicle Charging More Accessible
Tom Bloor, Managing Director of EV-charger company evec says our sector, along with central government, business and other public organisations, must all play major parts if Britain’s transport system is to have any chance of going electric.
There are around 65,000 public electric-vehicle charging points1 round the UK, scattered across 33,829 charging locations. That dwarfs the number of petrol stations – just 8,3002
and
falling. If you’re looking forward to more sustainable roads, that sounds great.
But that’s one public charger per 600 of the 40 million registered cars, trucks, lorries and other vehicles in the UK. If all vehicles went electric tomorrow, there would be some very long queues at charging stations.
It’s clear that if EVs are to become a realistic form of transport for most people, we need a public charging revolution. The old government’s target of 300,000 public chargers by 2030 is woefully short – particularly as Labour seems likely to bring back the plan to stop non-electric cars being sold by 2030. But there’s an awful lot that facilities managers and both private and public organisations can do – helped by significantly ramped-up central government funding.
Developers are now including electric charging points when building new homes with drives. That’s brilliant, but chargers need to be widely available for new blocks of flats or on housing estates with smaller homes. The same is true of new shopping centres and in existing town centres. A few chargers in the corner of a car park aren’t going to cut it, long term. Housing companies, town planners and facilities managers must take leading roles in ensuring that substantial EV-charging resources are integral to any public building or space.
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