In this CPD, BEAMA explores the business opportunities and technical requirements involved in creating the national electric vehicle charging infrastructure. By Mark Williamson. There are currently around 900,000 battery electric vehicles (EVs) and 50,000 public chargepoints in the UK. It is anticipated that there will be between eight and 11 million EVs on UK roads, which the government expects will require 300,000 public chargepoints as a minimum, by 2030.