Question reference: S6W-12009
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 10 November 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 November 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many minutes of downtime were recorded across the public electric vehicle (EV) charger network in each of the last 12 months, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The following table provides a monthly breakdown of network uptime across the entire ChargePlace Scotland network for the last year with an average uptime of 97.1%.
The Scottish Government do not currently hold this information by Local Authority area for the previous 12 months. However CPS has recently published a new Network Performance page on the website which will continuously be updated with ready access to detailed information on the performance of the public charging network with information such as uptime by Local Authority area.
Nov-21 | Dec-21 | January | Feb | March | April | May | June | July | August | Sept | October | |
Number of Units | 2126 | 2148 | 2168 | 2216 | 2227 | 2249 | 2268 | 2284 | 2319 | 2363 | 2389 | 2388 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 91,843,200 | 95,886,720 | 96,779,520 | 89,349,120 | 99,413,280 | 97,157,800 | 101,243,520 | 98,668,800 | 103,520,160 | 105,484,320 | 103,204,800 | 106,600,320 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 5,877,720 | 3,995,340 | 5,271,720 | 3,869,460 | 3,276,960 | 5,361,522 | 4,286,700 | 5,422,800 | 3,049,860 | 4,816,200 | 1,910,400 | 3,411,210 |
% Downtime | 6.40% | 4.17% | 5.45% | 4.33% | 3.30% | 5.52% | 4.23% | 5.50% | 2.95% | 4.57% | 1.85% | 3.20% |
% Uptime | 93.60% | 95.83% | 94.55% | 95.67% | 96.70% | 94.48% | 95.77% | 94.50% | 97.05% | 95.43% | 98.15% | 96.80% |