The UK’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging company has predicted that its public charging network will be used more than one million times a year by 2020.
Chargemaster has made the prediction for its Polar network, which is set to expand to around 25,000 charging points by the end of 2020, including several thousand rapid chargers.
Many of these will be 150kW units, capable of providing around 100 miles of range in ten minutes.
However, Chargemaster says that it still expects the vast majority of EV charging to be done at home, with around 11 million annual charges predicted by 2020 on its home and workplace charging points.
The company expects this growth to be driven by a big increase in the popularity of EVs. It predicts more than 500,000 EVs will be on UK roads by 2020.
Chargemaster chief executive David Martell said: “We will continue to provide the largest proportion of both home and public charging infrastructure in the UK in the coming years, and expect to see a huge increase in the use of both the Polar network, and the deployment of our UK-made Homecharge units.
“Over 42,000 EV drivers in the UK already use the Polar network and we expect that figure to rise dramatically by 2020, when we predict there will be over 500,000 EVs on UK roads.”
