TfL 2030 Electric Vehicle infrastructure strategy
Question No: 2025/0498
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, an estimate was made for 1,000 rapid chargers which could be accommodated on GLA Group land. How many rapid charging points have been installed on GLA Group land since December 2021?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
There were 300 rapid charge points installed between 2017 and 2021, including Glass Yard charging hub, which opened in September 2021.
Since December 2021, a further 12 rapid charging bays have been installed on GLA land, with a further 145 being actively progressed in partnership with Charge Point Operator. This includes 70 bays across five hub sites at Hangar Lane, Canning Town, Hatton Cross, Tottenham Hale and Hillingdon Circus and 75 on TfL’s road network, which will be released in batches throughout in 2025.
Question No: 2025/0499
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
What progress have you made in establishing a North London hub?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
My Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy, published in December 2021, noted that delivering a rapid charging hub in north London was a priority. Since this time, the delivery of rapid charge points by the private sector, including hub sites has increased and there are now a number of hub sites across London.
In December 2024, Places for London, Transport for London’s property company, appointed Fastned as its joint venture partner to deliver an initial five seed sites. The first five sites are located at Hanger Lane (Ealing), Canning Town (Newham), Hatton Cross (Hillingdon), Tottenham Hale (Haringey) and Hillingdon Circus (Hillingdon). Please see the response to 2025/0502 for more details.
Question No: 2025/0500
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, it says in the future 'boroughs will be encouraged to continue and enhance delivery of residential slow-to-fast charge points on their land'. What conversations have you had with boroughs about funding and development of land for residential EV charging points?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
I am continuing to support London’s boroughs to deliver the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure that Londoners will need to support their transition to EVs. My officers published an EV infrastructure borough support pack in January 2024 to assist boroughs to develop their local EV infrastructure strategies and deliver public charge points.
London has been allocated almost £39m of Government Local EV Infrastructure funding. This funding aims to expand the delivery of primarily low-powered charge points, increasing the number of local public charge points for residents who cannot charge at home. The majority of these will be delivered on borough roads, meeting the need for charging near to home. My officers are working closely with London Councils to support the delivery of these charge points.
My officers also continue to support boroughs looking to deliver rapid and ultra-rapid charge points across their land, for example in car parks or on-street. This includes sharing site selection processes, procurement templates and best practice for delivering infrastructure.
Question No: 2025/0501
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, it says in the future 'boroughs will be encouraged to continue and enhance delivery of residential slow-to-fast charge points on their land'. Can you provide a breakdown of boroughs with residential slow-to-fast chargers and rapid charging points?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
London continues to lead the way with the delivery of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The breakdown of charge points by London borough is attached.
Source: Department for Transport, public charging infrastructure, correct at 1 January 2025 Electric vehicle public charging infrastructure statistics: January 2025 - GOV.UK
Question No: 2025/0502
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, it says the 'Commercial Development team is pursuing opportunities to roll out our own rapid charging hubs, using available land'. How many rapid charging hubs have been installed since December 2021 and what land has been used (TfL, GLA Group etc)?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
Since the publication of the 2030 Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy, we have made significant progress in pursuing opportunities to roll out rapid charging hubs. Three hubs have already been rolled out by TfL (in Woolwich, Stratford and City of London), and in November 2023, Places for London launched a competitive tender to procure a joint venture partner to develop and manage a network of ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging hubs. In December 2024, Places for London announced that Fastned had been selected as its joint venture partner to potentially deliver up to 65 sites across London, with GLA Group land being the priority but third party sites also being considered.
Places for London and Fastned have agreed to jointly invest in the development of an initial five charging hubs, comprising over 70 ultra-rapid charging bays. These initial sites are all located on TfL land. In January 2025, Fastned and Places for London submitted their first planning application for 12 ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging bays at Hatton Cross in Hillingdon. If approved, the joint venture will begin construction and hopes to see the first assets operational within 12 months.
Question No: 2025/0503
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, it says an application platform interface would be developed to support improving the user experience and providing more reliable information on individual charge points. Was funding secured for this service and has this been developed?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
My London Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy identified a need to develop a real-time and open Application Platform Interface of all charge points across London to improve user experience and provide more reliable information on individual charge points, subject to an initial feasibility study and Government funding.
Transport for London (TfL) undertook initial feasibility work in 2022 to identify how it could develop a real-time information system for charge points across London. However, without Government funding, and with the subsequent Government consultation on proposals to regulate and improve the consumer experience of finding and using public charging infrastructure, including opening up charge point data, TfL did not progress this. The resulting Public Charge Point Regulations require that charge point operators provide accurate open data on all their charge points, including availability, location, connector types, pricing, payment methods and time restrictions. This data is available to mapping services and makes it easier for consumers to locate public charge points that meet their needs and to be confident that they will be in good working order.
Question No: 2025/0505
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, there were plans to establish an EV Ethics and Sustainability Committee. Has this been established and what have you done to support this?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
My Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Strategy acknowledged that questions have been raised around the source and end-of-life sustainability of the materials used to manufacture batteries and committed to seek a partner to set up an EV ethics and sustainability committee to engage with others, such as international cities, governments, trade bodies and non-government organisations to identify collective international action to address the ethics and sustainability of the supply chain for EVs.
My officers worked with C40 Cities, who hosted a series of virtual seminars for cities in their Zero Emission Vehicle Network, to address local priorities and requests to learn more about cities can look at emerging issues in the EV lifecycle. One option for cities is to use responsible procurement requirements covering ethical sourcing across supply chains, and this has been adopted in London.
The Greater London Authority and Transport for London are members of the Electronics Watch Low-Emission Vehicles Programme and require that companies they contract have robust ethical and sustainability policies to ensure the highest standards are met on the environment and workers' rights.
Question No: 2025/0506
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, there was a commitment to have London level forecasts to be updated every 2-3 years starting from 2022. Have you published your 2024 or 2025 forecasts, and what engagement with the sector have you and TfL had to reach this figure?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 28th February 2025
My London Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Strategy, published in December 2021, included modelling which forecast that London will need between 40,000 and 60,000 public charge points by 2030. This updated the infrastructure forecasts to 2025 set out in my earlier EV Infrastructure Delivery Plan, based on the input from my EV Infrastructure Taskforce.
My strategy committed to update these forecasts every two to three years, reflecting government policy changes, evolving technologies, and electric vehicle uptake. Transport for London (TfL) is updating the modelling and will publish an update later this year alongside a refresh of the commitments in the strategy. TfL is engaged with charge point operators on its planned modelling update through the London Charge Point Operators Forum, and will undertake further engagement with industry representatives ChargeUK and others on the modelling and updated commitments.
Question No: 2025/0504
Question: Thomas Turrell AM (Bexley and Bromley) - 25th February 2025
In the TfL 2030 electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, it envisages 'the first bus garage shared infrastructure', which was subject to securing funding. Was this funding awarded and has this been completed?
Answer: Sir Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) - 12th March 2025
I have committed to a zero emission bus fleet by 2030 and Transport for London (TfL) continues to work closely with key stakeholders to achieve this. There are currently 1,878 zero emission tailpipe buses in the London fleet, and more than 1,000 buses on order. TfL is working with stakeholders to ensure the necessary infrastructure is available to enable this transition.
However, there remain several challenges to the sharing of charging infrastructure in bus garages with other vehicles, including space constraints and safety and security concerns. Unfortunately, government funding has not been forthcoming to support this. However, my officers will continue to explore with bus operators any opportunities to pilot the sharing of bus garage charging infrastructure.
