UK EV drivers keenest for car park charging

The UK’s Electric Vehicle drivers are the keenest to charge in car parks out of the five European countries surveyed by YouGov for the EV chargepoint manufacturer CTEK.

More than one in seven (15%) Electric Vehicle (EV) drivers surveyed in the UK said that a public or private car park would be their preferred charging place. The EV drivers use either a fully electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle, or both.

That was the highest score recorded for car park charging in the YouGov survey of more than 11,000 people in five European countries, including more than 1,000 EV drivers.

A tenth of UK EV drivers are already charging in car parks, which suggests an unmet additional demand which car park operators can tap into to increase their revenue by attracting more EV drivers and generate additional income from fees for parking and EV charging.