Response A1345582

Response to request for information

Response date

7 September 2021

Request

Request for anonymised information relating to public electric vehicle (EV) charging points provided by Rushcliffe Council on behalf of DevicePilot Ltd.

1. Council name
2. Region
3. What is your current budget for purchasing public EV charging points per annum? If you do not have a set yearly budget, please can you confirm how much money has been spent on purchasing EV charging points over the last 12 months?
4. What is your current budget for maintaining public EV charging points per annum?
5. What is the cost associated with buying a single public EV charging point? If costs can vary, please share an average or typical cost if known. Please include the total, including any OLEV funding.
6. How much government funding for public EV charging points have you received over the last 12 months? Please write “0” if none.
7. What percentage of your annual budget for public EV charging points is funded by the government?
8. How many new public EV charging points do you expect to see installed in your authority between now and end of year 2022?
   If you don't have a specific number planned, please respond with "no specific number planned"
9. Do you have place for the installation of more public EV charging points through to 2025? If not, over what period of time do you have a roadmap for? If you don’t have a roadmap, please respond with “we don’t have any specific plan in place”.
10. Are you making specific plans for the installation of rapid public EV charging points by 2025? If so, what percentage of new public charging points will be rapid? In this case, ‘rapid’ means 43Kw or more.
11. In the last 12 months, have you received any complaints from constituents about the reliability, availability or number of EV charging points in your council?

Response

1. Council name
   • Rushcliffe Borough Council
2. Region
   • Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
3. What is your current budget for purchasing public EV charging points per annum? If you do not have a set yearly budget, please can you confirm how much money has been spent on purchasing EV charging points over the last 12 months?
   • No set budget. EV chargers to date installed through grant and partner funding.
4. What is your current budget for maintaining public EV charging points per annum?
   • No budget. EV charge points installed to date are owned and operated by the concessionaire.
5. What is the cost associated with buying a single public EV charging point? If costs can vary, please share an average or typical cost if known. Please include the total, including any OLEV funding.
   • Under the funding we have received and through the partnership arrangements: 1) single 43kWh charger costs £15k+vat and full installation costs £28,285+vat, and 2) for the fast 7kWh chargers a single costs £1,890+vaT and full installation costs £6,633+vat.
6. How much government funding for public EV charging points have you received over the last 12 months? Please write “0” if none.
   • £52,540
7. What percentage of your annual budget for public EV charging points is funded by the government?
   • The Council does not have a set budget to make this calculation.
8. How many new public EV charging points do you expect to see installed in your authority between now and end of year 2022?
   • 16
9. Do you have place for the installation of more public EV charging points through to 2025? If not, over what period of time do you have a roadmap for? If you don’t have a roadmap, please respond with “we don’t have any specific plan in place”.
   • We don’t have any specific plan in place
10. Are you making specific plans for the installation of rapid public EV charging points by 2025? If so, what percentage of new public charging points will be rapid? In this case, ‘rapid’ means 43Kw or more.
    • We don’t have any specific plan in place
11. In the last 12 months, have you received any complaints from constituents about the reliability, availability or number of EV charging points in your council?
    • Yes