The government has pledged a tenfold increase in the number of electric car charging points by 2030.
The Department for Transport has said it will invest an extra £450m to help private firms install more than 300,000 chargers, after criticism that the roll-out of public infrastructure was too slow to match the growth in EV sales.
There were 420,000 pure-electric cars on UK roads at the end of February, according to comparison website Next Green Car. There were, however, only 29,600 public charging points in the UK on 1 March, according to data company Zap-Map.
The £450m local electric vehicle infrastructure fund would focus on charger hubs and on-street chargers, the DfT said.
More pressure will also be put on developers and asset owners to supply more chargers at their properties.
