Question reference: S6W-11135
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 September 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many public electric vehicle (EV) charging points have been reported as broken or out of service and (b) what it estimates the cost has been of repairing broken and out of service public EV charging points, in each of the last three years, broken down by geographical area.
Answer
Over the past decade the Scottish Government has invested more than £55 million in electric vehicle charging. ChargePlace Scotland (CPS), a publicly available network of chargers, now consists of over 2,300 charge points across Scotland.
Responsibility for repairing charge points rests with the host or owner, which may be a local authority, other public body, third sector, or business. The CPS back office, which is a contracted service, advises hosts of faults as they arise.
Most faults on the network are short-lived and in the majority of cases require no physical intervention. Overall reliability across the CPS network is typically very good: on average 95% - 97% of charge points are operational each day.
The Scottish Government does not hold information on all public charge points in Scotland, only those on CPS.
(a) Information on the location of faults on the CPS network is not held by Scottish Ministers. Transport Scotland works with the CPS back office to enhance data provision and information, and I will ensure that members are kept updated on those improvements.
(b) Information on the costs of repairing broken or out of service charge points is not held by Scottish Ministers. Charge point maintainers provide quotes and issue invoices directly to the owner of the charge point.