Electric vehicles are are on the rise - which means the need for electric vehicle infrastructure continues to increase too.

But where can you find them?

Worcester has a number of electric car charging points - partly driven by the city council’s bid for Worcester to become carbon neutral by 2030.

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There are two rapid vehicle charge points on Level 2 of the Crowngate Shopping Centre and 12 charging points on the ground floor of St Martin’s Gate car park - six 50kw rapid charging points and six 22kw fast charging points.

The Asda car park in Silver Street has an EV charging space that is part of the BP Pulse network.

There are further BP Pulse charging spaces at the University of Worcester’s Riverside Campus in Hylton Road and St John’s Campus in Henwick Grove.

Elsewhere in St John’s, there are EV spaces at Motorline Hyundai in Bromyard Road at Taylor Wimpey’s new Kensington Gate development.

Where to find electric car charging points in Droitwich and Malvern

In the north of the city, you can charge your electric car at Lidl in Droitwich Road, at the Blackpole Inn, in Blackpole Road, and at the Warndon Community Centre, in Shap Drive.

There are BP Pulse electric charging points at Waitrose in London Road and just up the road there are Osprey charging spaces at the Oak Apple Pub.

The MFG Nunnery Park services off the A4440 Nunnery Way also offer EV charging, as does Tesco in St Peter’s and The Swan at Whittington.

Outside the city, there is electric vehicle charging available at Stanbrook Abbey in Callow End, at Worcestershire Parkway train station, Norton Parish Hall and at Alcester Road Services and Toast Flyford on the A422.

In Droitwich, the only charging points listed on zap-map.com are at Waitrose in Salt Way and Lidl in Kidderminster Road.

There are a few EV charging spaces around Malvern including at The Malvern Spa Hotel, Malvern Panalytical and the Malvern Hills GeoCentre in Upper Wyche. There are eight spaces on the Priory Road Car Park in Great Malvern.

There are now more than half a million pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) on UK roads.

Analysis of DVLA data by the RAC Foundation shows there were 519,266 BEVs licensed at the end of June.

This is up from 282,977 a year earlier and 130,246 at the end of June 2020.