- Scotland’s national transport agency, Transport Scotland, has announced a fresh investment of £85 million, which will help create more public EV charging infrastructure and encourage more people to make the switch to EVs.
- The funding will also help create new, yet-to-be-confirmed incentives to encourage more consumers and businesses to make the switch.
- This new allocation of funds will be spread across 2026 and 2027, helping Scotland’s transportation system to decarbonise further.
Scotland allocates additional funds towards EV charging and EV incentives
The new funding will help continue the impressive public chargepoint growth that has already been seen across Scotland. The region already has over 7,400 public chargepoints installed, according to Zapmap. The number of public chargers in Scotland is expected to grow to around 30,000 by 2030 – helped along by this new funding.
The Scottish Government has previously announced several funding packages related to public EV charging. Last year, it launched a £4.5 million ‘Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund’, helping allocate EV charging infrastructure to areas which have so far been underserved when it comes to charging availability.
Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop, commented:
“We know that we need to reduce emissions and support a Just Transition to net zero by 2045 – that’s why, in 2026-27 we will provide £85 million to fund new and continuing low carbon activities, including further developing Scotland’s EV charging network and new incentives to continue to support consumers and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles.
We are also using our Non-Domestic Rates regime to further our net zero ambitions by introducing a relief for qualifying Electric Vehicle charging points for 10 years.”
