Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an overview of the public electric vehicle charging network, including what the (a) number of installed chargers, (b) potential uptime, (c) recorded downtime and (d) proportion of uptime and downtime served to the public has been in each month of the last three years.
We can only provide information relating to the Scottish Government funded ChargePlace Scotland (CPS) public electric vehicle (EV) charging network. The commercial sector does not make their own charge point fault information readily available to third parties.
The following tables provides a monthly breakdown of the total number of charge points on the CPS network by month and the recorded uptime and downtime across the entire CPS network as served to the public for the last three years
CPS have published a Network Performance page on the CPS website which provides a breakdown by local authority from November 2021. This will continuously be updated with ready access to detailed information on the performance of the public charging network. Prior to November 2021 this information was not collated by the Scottish Government.
Please note that the new CPS contractor took over responsibility of the contract from the end of July 2021, therefore the figures provided are from the first full month of delivery.
2021 | 21-Aug | 21-Sep | 21-Oct | 21-Nov | 21-Dec |
Number of Units | 1760 | 2065 | 2101 | 2126 | 2148 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 78,566,400 | 89,208,000 | 90,763,200 | 91,843,200 | 95,886,720 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 16,368,360 | 5,894,580 | 3,418,500 | 5,877,720 | 3,995,340 |
% Downtime | 20.83% | 6.61% | 3.77% | 6.40% | 4.17% |
% Uptime | 79.17% | 93.39% | 96.23% | 93.60% | 95.83% |
2022 | January | February | March | April | May |
Number of Units | 2168 | 2216 | 2227 | 2249 | 2268 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 96,779,520 | 89,349,120 | 99,413,280 | 97,157,800 | 101,243,520 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 5,271,720 | 3,869,460 | 3,276,960 | 5,361,522 | 4,286,700 |
% Downtime | 5.45% | 4.33% | 3.20% | 5.50% | 4.20% |
% Uptime | 94.55% | 95.67% | 96.80% | 94.50% | 95.80% |
2022 | June | July | August | September | October |
Number of Units | 2284 | 2319 | 2363 | 2389 | 2388 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 98,668,800 | 103,520,160 | 105,484,320 | 103,204,800 | 106,600,320 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 5,422,800 | 3,049,860 | 4,816,200 | 1,910,400 | 2,131,020 |
% Downtime | 5.50% | 2.95% | 4.50% | 1.85% | 2.00% |
% Uptime | 94.50% | 97.05% | 95.50% | 98.15% | 98.00% |
2022 | November | December |
Number of Units | 2413 | 2448 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 104,241,600 | 109,278,720 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 3,648,456 | 4,261,870 |
% Downtime | 3.50% | 3.90% |
% Uptime | 96.50% | 96.10% |
2023 | January | February | March | April | May |
Number of Units | 2459 | 2475 | 2493 | 2518 | 2512 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 109,769,760 | 99,792,000 | 111,287,520 | 108,777,600 | 112,135,680 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 3,512,632 | 3,293,136 | 3,338,626 | 3,263,328 | 3,139,799 |
% Downtime | 3.20% | 3.30% | 3.00% | 3.00% | 2.80% |
% Uptime | 96.80% | 96.70% | 97.00% | 97.00% | 97.20% |
2023 | June | July | August | September | October |
Number of Units | 2531 | 2569 | 2574 | 2599 | 2618 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 109,339,200 | 114,680,160 | 114,903,360 | 112,276,800 | 116,867,520 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 2,952,158 | 2,752,324 | 2,757,681 | 2,694,643 | 2,687,953 |
% Downtime | 2.70% | 2.40% | 2.40% | 2.40% | 2.30% |
% Uptime | 97.30% | 97.60% | 97.60% | 97.60% | 97.70% |
2023 | November | December |
Number of Units | 2648 | 2682 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 114,393,600 | 119,724,480 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 2,516,659 | 2,753,663 |
% Downtime | 2.20% | 2.30% |
% Uptime | 97.80% | 97.70% |
2024 | January | February | March | April | May |
Number of Units | 2705 | 2760 | 2779 | 2795 | 2845 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 120,751,200 | 111,283,200 | 124,054,560 | 120,744,000 | 127,000,800 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 2,898,029 | 2,336,947 | 2,729,200 | 2,656,368 | 2,667,017 |
% Downtime | 2.40% | 2.10% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.10% |
% Uptime | 97.60% | 97.90% | 97.80% | 97.80% | 97.90% |
2024 | June | July |
Number of Units | 2871 | 2885 |
Potential Uptime(minutes) | 124,027,200 | 128,786,400 |
Logged Downtime per fault tickets( minutes) | 2,852,626 | 2,962,087 |
% Downtime | 2.30% | 2.30% |
% Uptime | 97.70% | 97.70% |
2871 | 2885 |