EV charging
Electric vehicles (EVs) need to park just as petrol and diesel fuelled cars do. The difference is that some motorists want to recharge their vehicle's batteries while parking.
The EV not only occupies a parking space, but it may also occupy an EV charging point (EV CPs) even when it is fully charged. Offering seamless parking means allowing our customers to leave their EV where it is parked even though the battery is topped-up. This creates an operational as well as a commercial challenge as we need to have ample EV CPs available for our EV customers.
Results
We continue to expand the number of EV CPs for our customers with EVs. The total number of EV CPs available is now 9,416 (2024: 6,854), an increase of 37%. The total number of EV CPs we operate is now 7,310 (2024: 4,708) an increase of 55%.
Chart 14 Total EV charging points
We now have 398 PFs offering EV charging (2024: 261) an increase of 52%.
Chart 15 Parking facilities offering EV charging
Each year our EV CPs facilitate more zero-emission kilometres, which we calculate using an average of 5 kilometres per kWh1. In 2024, our EV CPs enabled about 106.0 million (2024: 77.7) zero-emission kilometres, a 36% increase.
Chart 16 Zero-emission kms (in millions) enabled
- The kilometres per kWh is a measure of the distance an EV is averaging for each kWh of energy from its battery. Some efficient EVs might manage a higher performance and some larger EV models may be lower, that's why we work with an average of 5 kilometres per kWh.