The popularity of electric buses has soared rapidly in the U.K. over the last few years. This is mainly because of the growing public awareness of the environmental damage caused dueto the utilization of oil and gas-powered buses. The swift rise in the number of electric buses running on British roads and public transport fleets is boosting the requirement for electric bus charging stations and other kinds of charging facilities all over the U.K. In addition to being deployed in public transport fleets, electric buses are being increasingly deployed in large numbers in military transport fleets in the U.K.
Due to the aforementioned factors, the U.K electric bus charging station market is predicted to demonstrate rapid advancement in the upcoming years. There are mainly two types of electric bus chargers used in the U.K. namely overnight chargers and opportunity chargers. Between the two, the sales of the overnight chargers were found to be higher in the past and this trend is likely to continue in the coming years. This is because of the higher preference of public and private transport agencies for electric buses that can be charged overnight over the buses requiring opportunity chargers.
Amongst these categories, the<50 kW division registered the highest growth in the market during the years gone by. However, the >150 kW category will exhibit the fastest growth in the U.K. electric bus charging station market in the upcoming years, as per the forecast of P&S Intelligence, a market research firm based in India. This is predominantly attributed to the ballooning requirement for faster charging stations for electric buses all over the U.K.
Hence, it can be said without any doubt that the requirement for electric bus charging stations and facilities will go up in the U.K. in the future years, because of the growing utilization of electric buses in public and military transport fleets.
