2025 Charging Infrastructure Full Year Review
It's January 2026, time to see how charging infrastructure's developed over the course of 2025.
It's July 1 2026, time to see how charging infrastructure's developed over the first half of 2026.
Overview
First up, the overall change in the number of live connectors from January 1 to June 30. We source our data on non-domestic charging infrastructure from Open Charge Map, & we've an interactive Infrastructure Data dashboard available based on it.
| Connector | January 1 | June 30 | Numeric Change | % Change |
| CCS | 1,487 | 1,751 | 264 | 18% |
| Chademo | 454 | 448 | (6) | (-1%) |
| Type 2 | 5,897 | 6,223 | 326 | 6% |
Next, let's look to what charging infrastructure is still on the way. We are currently tracking 515 locations on Infrastructure Updates (Member Version), & their statuses are as follows:
| Status | Number of Locations |
| Now Building | 60 [amounting to 300+ connectors] |
| Announced | 299 |
| Decision Pending | 36 |
| Further Info Required | 17 |
| Approved | 100 |
| Refused | 2 |
| Appealed | 1 |
County Level
Presented below are the total counts for each of the various live connectors per county.
| CCS |
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| Chademo |
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| Type 2 |
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Spotlight on CCS
We'll focus on CCS as it's the dominant fast / high power connector. First up, what charging speeds are associated with those 1,751 CCS connectors?
| CCS connectors by Charging Speed (kW) |
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We note that advertised charging speeds typically reflects a unit's single vehicle potential.
Now let's take a look at the change in CCS from the perspective of charge point operators (or services), again sorted from the highest to lowest change in numbers.
| Operator | January 1 | June 30 | Numeric Change | % Change |
| ePower | 127 | 202 | 75 | 59% |
| EZO | 316 | 384 | 68 | 22% |
| ESB ecars | 361 | 394 | 33 | 9% |
| Applegreen Electric | 98 | 122 | 24 | 24% |
| Circle K | 80 | 98 | 18 | 23% |
| Business Owner | 285 | 300 | 15 | 5% |
| Weev | 25 | 35 | 10 | 40% |
| Source | 8 | 18 | 10 | 125% |
| InstaVolt | 17 | 25 | 8 | 47% |
| Lidl | 6 | 6 | 100% | |
| Monta | 32 | 29 | (3) | (9%) |
| Tesla | 60 | 60 | ||
| Ionity | 48 | 48 | ||
| Brite | 14 | 14 | ||
| Maxol | 6 | 6 | ||
| Certa | 2 | 2 | ||
| Stop N Top | 2 | 2 | ||
| ChargePoint | 2 | 2 | ||
| Fuuse | 2 | 2 | ||
| eStation | 1 | 1 | ||
| GOcharge | 1 | 1 |
Accounting for around four fifths of the new CCS so far this year were: EZO, ePower, ESB ecars, Circle K, & Applegreen Electric.
Summary
With an increase of 448 CCS connectors in 2025, 2026 looks set to surpass that with three fifths that amount, 264, already now live in H1 2026 & a significant number already in the ground & awaiting power.
We note too the slight, 1%, decline in Chademo connectors, which relates primarily to unit replacements (a CCS plus Chademo unit being replaced with a dual CCS unit) exceeding the rate of new units with them.