
Current Electric Vehicle (EV) charging projects and strategy
Find out about the Council’s plan in supporting and rolling out EV charging infrastructure.
The UK Government’s Road to Zero Strategy restricts the sale of fossil-fuelled cars from 2030. No new diesel and petrol cars can be sold from this date and no plug-in hybrid vehicles (using batteries and diesel or petrol) from 2035.
This will mean that car owners will increasingly be encouraged to move away from petrol and diesel cars towards electric vehicles.
Supporting the transition
Worcestershire is one of eight local authorities, across the Midlands, that have successfully bid for £20.64m of funding in early 2025, aimed at getting more public electric vehicle chargers into areas with limited off-street parking.
£3.5 million of Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) capital funding has been awarded to Worcestershire County Council which will be used to leverage additional private investment into the local area. We have been working with a consortium of three other County Councils to procure a chargepoint operator to supply, install and operate a network of EV chargers. Working in a wider consortium has allowed for greater influence in the market and therefore greater ability to provide the solutions that our residents need to support them in driving an EV.