- A new study carried out by Stellantis &You has highlighted which UK cities are seeing the most significant growth when it comes to rollout of public EV charging infrastructure.
- The report highlights the top 10 UK cities for EV charging growth, but also the top UK cities where EV charge point availability is lagging behind the best performers.
- With the UK still working towards a 2030 EV mandate, ensuring public charger growth is crucial to help keep boosting EV uptake.
EV charging availability is rising across the UK, but not equally
The report from Stellantis &You compares UK cities against a number of EV charging-related metrics. One of the highlights is data showing the cities which have seen the most significant growth from 2020 to 2025. Topping that specific list is Coventry. The city had just 203 public chargers installed in July 2020, but by July 2025, that had risen to 2,578 chargers – a significant five-year rise of 1170%. The council has pushed heavily on installing such infrastructure thanks to its own EV charging infrastructure strategy, helping it have the highest number of EV chargers outside of London. Coventry also had the highest number of EV chargers per head – with 718 chargers per 100,000 people, followed up in second and third place by London and Dundee with 323 and 222 chargers per 100,000 respectively.
Other cities in the top ten which are seeing the most significant public charger growth include Birmingham, Swansea, Newport, Edinburgh, Kingston-upon-Hull, Stoke-on-Trent, Wrexham, Plymouth, and Glasgow. All of these cities have seen the number of charge points at least triple in the last five years.
The report also highlighted the cities in need of further public charger growth, which otherwise risk getting left behind in the EV transition. Top of that list was Southampton, which has a total of 119 EV chargers. That equates to only 48 chargers per 100,000 people – a far cry from Coventry’s 718 chargers per 100,000. Other cities which lacked on chargers, taking into account the total number of charge points and charging speed, included Derry, Bristol, Belfast, Wrexham, Wolverhampton, Portsmouth, Kingston-upon-Hull, Liverpool, and Leicester.
