Most investment in publicly available charging points has been by the private sector. These have increased from below 3,000 in 2015 to well over 20,000 today. This excludes those not publicly available - home, workplace etc.

Even if ALL cars sold until 2030 were electric, they would still represent only 40-50% of vehicles on the road. ICE will be the rest. This is an unlikely outcome. Expect ~30-40% of vehicles to be EV by 2030 rising to 80%+ by 2040.

Dig at the government by all means, but accept that the market will mostly drive installation of charging points because it makes commercial sense - energy companies profit from energy sales, hotels and supermarkets benefit from the business charging points will attract, etc

Perhaps more sympathy should be reserved for the owners and staff of traditional fuel stations whose numbers have fallen from 40,000 in the 1960s to ~8,000 today. Likely to fall further and become a rarity by 2040.

Perhaps more sympathy should be reserved for the owners and staff of traditional fuel stations whose numbers have fallen from 40,000 in the 1960s to ~8,000 today. Likely to fall further and become a rarity by 2040.

Most 'traditional' filling stations have become small convenience stores with fuel pumps as a sideline - profits from selling fuel must be small. Rather like traditional pubs becoming gastro-pubs.

No wonder so many people are skint these days if they use filling stations to buy anything other than a chocolate bar/drink sandwich/packet of ciggies when in desperate need.

To be fair about the number of filling stations, the large drop has been offset by vehciles needing fuel less often and many filling stations being significantly larger (especially at large supermarkets) than the 2 pump jobbie in the middle of nowhere.