The UK’s electric vehicle charging network is on course to match Norway’s infrastructure balance within the next three years, as charger deployment accelerates and petrol station numbers continue to decline.
Analysis from The Electric Car Scheme suggests the UK’s ratio of chargers to petrol stations will rise from 10.5 to one today to 15 to one by 2027, broadly in line with Norway. The UK now has 87,796 public charging connectors across 45,033 locations, with the network expanding at an annual rate of 23%. Rapid and ultra rapid chargers are growing even faster at around 30% per year, while petrol stations are disappearing at a rate of 3.6% annually.
Norway remains the European benchmark, with 96% of new cars registered in 2025 fully electric and around 27,000 public fast chargers supporting just 1,800 petrol stations. The Electric Car Scheme believes the UK could reach a similar balance in roughly half the time.
Thom Groot, chief executive of The Electric Car Scheme, said: “We are getting to the point where infrastructure will lead to further EV adoption, not follow it.”
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