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<p>We recognise that a UK-wide, reliable and joined-up public electric vehicle charging
network infrastructure is essential for realising our ambitions for zero emission
driving and we will continue to invest to bring this about.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>Our jointly funded £400 million Chargepoint Infrastructure Investment Fund’s
first investment round, worth a total of £70 million, will ensure the delivery of
a further 3,000 rapid charging devices by 2024, more than doubling the current number
of rapid charging devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 21 January, we announced
that Government has doubled the value of the On-street Residential Charging Scheme
for 2020-2021 to £10 million to support the provision of up to 3,600 chargepoints
for those that do not have off-street parking.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In July
2019 work commenced to determine a vision for a core rapid charger network on England’s
strategic road network. This will report in Spring 2020. Highways England has committed
£15m to ensure there are chargepoints (rapid where possible) every 20 miles on 95%
of the Strategic Road Network by 2020. As of December 2019 84% of the network is within
20 miles of a rapid electric vehicle chargepoint.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To
date, government and industry have supported the installation of over 17,000 devices
providing over 24,000 publicly available chargepoints. This includes over 2,400 rapid
chargepoints – one of the largest networks in Europe.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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