Another clear sign of the increased demand for electric vehicle chargers across the country, especially in holiday parks in the Dorset area. There are reports of many customers of holiday parks in the region complaining of the lack of EV charging stations.
Martin Cox, who owns six-holiday park sites across Dorset, has highlighted publicly that businesses don’t have a charging infrastructure in the area. He went on to say, “We’ve never supplied our customers with petrol or diesel, but suddenly our customers expect us to have electric charging points”.
Dorset Council
A spokesperson from Dorset Council said the increase in charging points was a “key action”.
“People arrive, they have travelled two and a half hours, “ Mr. Cox went on to say, “But when they go out the next day, they will have to find somewhere to charge their car quite rapidly.”
He added, “We have, at the moment, six charging points, the most we can put into the current infrastructure that we have.”
The current count of electric cars
As it stands today, there are currently 660,000 electric cars on the road in the UK, according to Zap Map.
The UK has around 7,580 rapid and ultra-rapid charging devices but only 276 in the county of Dorset, which are located mainly in the more urban areas.
Adrian Keen, the CEO of InstaVolt, the company that develops and installs chargers, said “Six or seven years ago, it was all about London, “it was all about putting some infrastructure on the motorways and the big cities.”
He also said that it “completely ignores the small market towns, the rural communities, the tourist areas.”
“The number of electric vehicles visiting the southwest region was on an upward trajectory and “there will be enough trade to make charges pay back in less busy locations.”
More charging points are on the way
Dorset Council said the authority “will be working closely with local communities, landowners, and businesses to identify the best locations to install the new charge points.”
Discussions are also taking place between the council and their current charge point operator to develop ‘charging hubs’ in key tourist hotspots in Dorset. The county of Dorset is one of the 20 areas in England to receive funding from the UK government scheme aiming to improve electric vehicle charging infrastructure, with funding of £1 million. And with this government funding, there are plans to expand the charging points by another 150 over the next couple of years.
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