Green Drivers

While London and Birmingham had the most electric vehicles overall (28,907 and 18,988 respectively), the city with the highest proportion of EVs was actually Peterborough, where 5.27% of vehicles are electric, which works out at about one in every 20. This was followed by the Forest of Dean (4.57%) and Slough (3.45%).
 
However, it was largely areas in Northern Ireland and Wales that had the lowest proportion of EVs, largely due to a lack of charging infrastructure, with Fermanagh & Omagh in Northern Ireland (0.09%) and Blaenau Gwent in Wales (0.1%) having the lowest uptake of EVs.

London is largely ahead of the curve when it comes to the adoption of electric vehicles, with one in every 100 (1.09%) of vehicles being electric, compared to 0.71% for the nation as a whole, with a much greater charging infrastructure to convince people to go electric.
 
Aside from the City of London, which has a very low resident population, Westminster was the borough with the highest percentage of EVs, with 3.66%, followed by Kensington & Chelsea (2.61%) and Camden (2.55%).
 
However, there are still many London boroughs which fall behind the national average when it comes to the proportion of EVs, including Havering (0.38%), Barking & Dagenham (0.42%) and Bexley (0.44%).

If you’re one of the 32 million drivers yet to invest in an electric car, there are still lots of steps that you can take to lessen your impact on the environment when driving.

1. Plan your journey – not only is sitting in traffic one of the most frustrating ways to spend your time, while you’re stationary in your car when it’s turned on, it’s pumping emissions into the atmosphere. Try setting off to work a bit earlier or using an alternative route.
2. Drive steadily – try to maintain a constant and steady speed while you’re driving to limit the amount of fuel you use. Make sure you’re always anticipating what’s coming so that you can brake more gradually.
3. Check your tyre pressure – you should be doing this regularly anyway, but if your tyres are a little flat, it means that your car has to do more work to get going, in turn using up more fuel.
4. Lighten your load – the heavier your vehicle, the more fuel it burns. Try to keep the amount of stuff in your car to a minimum, including things like roof boxes that you aren’t using, as these will make the vehicle less aerodynamic and mean it burns more fuel.