Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 6 May 2025.

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Photo of Elsie Blundell Elsie Blundell Labour, Heywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce universal signage for electronic vehicle charging points.

Photo of Perran Moon Perran Moon Labour, Camborne and Redruth

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve signage for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Photo of Lilian Greenwood Lilian Greenwood Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

A reliable, accessible public charging network to support electric vehicle (EV) drivers on long journeys is essential. Ensuring this is visible and functional will build consumer confidence, which is vital for mass EV adoption. An EV charging symbol is in use on traffic signs to direct drivers to the growing number of chargepoints. There are now over 5,250 open-access rapid and ultra rapid chargers within one mile of the Strategic Road Network (SRN), having doubled over 18 months.

Government is working with industry, including chargepoint operators, and with National Highways, which manages the SRN in England, to improve signage deployment. This includes looking for opportunities to make it easier to provide signage for EV-only charging hubs.

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