They’re concerned that people don’t know what they should about EVs. . .

By Gary S. Vasilash

In order to keep U.K. customers interested in the possibility of buying an electric vehicle, Auto Trader (a vehicle purchase platform), ChargeUK (an organization consisting of EV charging companies), and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (a trade association representing OEMs and suppliers) have gotten together to combat misinformation about EVs.

This past February the House of Lords’ Environment and Climate Change Committee came out with a report that indicated there was a need for “clear and balanced information” regarding EVs for consumers.

And Auto Trader discovered that the number of retailers offering EVs on its site was at 35% for both 2023 and 2024. It had been 57% in 2022.

So this is what the three groups have come up with:

One of the interesting points is the 71,459 available chargers.

In the U.S., as of late August, there were over 192,000 publicly available chargers, according to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.

To put that into context, the U.S. is 40 times larger than the U.K.; it has five times as many people, and nine times as many automobiles. Yet it has just 120,500 more public chargers.

According to the U.K. group there is one charger per four miles of road in the U.K.

The U.S. federal infrastructure plan is building out one charging station on the Interstate Highway System—per every 50 miles.

If there is concern about the lack of a significant uptake of EVs it should be in the U.S. far more than in the U.K.