Peak EV charging demand on the strategic road network (Systra

These dates coincide with long trips in the weekend before Christmas but there is still the potential skew of the number of devices and EVs increasing towards the end of the year, the prevalence of the upward trend is highlighted in Figure 13. [...] The data showed the number of charge events at a subset of the locations, and indicated a total of 1688 devices on the SRN by the end of 2022. [...] For the Typical Day scenario this is the figure added to the 1609 starting number, for the peak scenarios this is the number added to the Typical Day and is reflected in the ‘number of chargers (inc. [...] When the number of devices is limited to the Typical Day demand optimisation then the wait time exceeds that of the acceptable limit by 2035 in the peaks and continues to increase (Figure 33). [...] Towards the middle of the century EVs in the fleet are expected to be the majority of the network and the number of charge events remains about the same.