Infrastructure and charging 'will be main focus for EV market'

Date: 1/9/2011

The biggest developments likely to be made within the electric vehicle (EV) market in 2012 will concern infrastructure and charging models.

Such is the opinion of Kenny Biggin, Director of ElectricCarSite.co.uk, who notes that the industry is already "reasonable well served" by a range of car models that are powered in this way and designed for driving in urban environments.

He claims that the major issue now is to address the availability of charging points as this is something that is "crucial" should people wish to use an EV to travel between cities.

"The market will not take off until the infrastructure is there. So charging point companies, with the associated software development, and public and government investment in things like the Plugged-in Places scheme will be big," he claims.

Plugged-in Places is a programme that is supported by the government and offers to match the funding put up by public sector groups and business consortiums to pay for the installation of EV recharging points.

Key places across the UK where the scheme is in place will be monitored in order to collect evidence that will form the basis of establishing a UK-wide infrastructure in the future.

Posted by Nick Anderson