The UK installed a record number of public electric car chargers in 2024, although the rate of growth slowed as installers contended with delays to government funding. Numbers rose by more than a third to reach 73,421 by 20 December, according to Zapmap, whose data the government uses. The increase of 19,600 was nearly equivalent to the total number of chargers at the end of 2020. Charger companies are racing to install points to serve the more than 1m electric cars on British roads. Demand is expected to rise steeply as rules force manufacturers to sell more electric cars every