Policy paper

UK electric vehicle infrastructure strategy

The vision and action plan for electric vehicle charging infrastructure within the United Kingdom.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Taking charge: the electric vehicle infrastructure strategy

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This strategy sets out our vision and action plan for the rollout of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the UK, ahead of the phase out dates. We intend:

  • to end the sale of new petrol and diesel petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030
  • for all new cars and vans to be fully zero emission at the tailpipe by 2035

Our strategy was informed by:

Updates to this page

Published 25 March 2022
Last updated 31 March 2022 + show all updates
  1. Numbers of battery electric vehicles updated from 340,000 to 450,000 to reflect March 2022 figures, on pages 16 and 25. Gridserve investment commitment corrected from £100 million to £1 billion on page 27.

  2. First published.

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