Recommendation 14

We challenged the Department for Transport on how it would ensure the charging infrastructure expanded in step with its plans for a very rapid expansion in the number of electric cars ahead of 2030. The Department told us it has not set targets for the number and type of charging infrastructure required to support the zero-emission vehicle transition because it expects private investment to drive this.29 The Department did not think it was for them to set the number of charge-points needed and highlighted the number of variables involved as evidence of the complexity of determining what might be needed.30