EV charging

Electric vehicles (EVs) need to park just as petrol and diesel fuelled cars do. The difference is that some motorists want to recharge their car's batteries while parking.

The EV not only occupies a parking space, but it may also occupy an EV charging point even when it is fully charged. Offering seamless parking means allowing our customers to leave their car where it is parked even though it is fully charged. This creates an operational as well as a commercial challenge as we need to have ample EV charging points available for our electric vehicle motorists.

Results

We continue to expand the number of EV charging points at the most relevant Q-Park locations for our electric vehicle motorists. The total number of EV charging points available is now 6,854 (2023: 4,114), an increase of 67%. The total number of EV charging points we operate is now 4,708 (2,996 in 2023) an increase of 57%.

Chart 15 Total EV charging points

We now have 261 parking facilities offering EV charging (2023: 249) an increase of 5%.

Chart 16 Parking facilities offering EV charging

Each year our EV charging points facilitate more zero-emission kilometres, which we calculate using an average of 5 kilometres per kWh¹. In 2024, our EV charging points enabled about 77.7 million (2023: 48.6) zero-emission kilometres, a 60% increase.

Chart 17 Zero-emission kms (in millions) enabled

1. The kilometres per kWh is a measure of the distance an EV is averaging for each kWh of energy from its battery. Some efficient EVs might manage a higher performance and some larger EV models can be lower, but we work with the average of 5 kilometres per kWh.