Barnet now provides more than 2,000 public electrical vehicle (EV) charging points, up from fewer than 200 when Labour came to power in May 2022.
EV charging point provision now surpasses even Friends of the Earth’s target for the borough – and the Labour manifesto’s – of 1,219 by 2030.
Ensuring availability of EV charging is part of Labour’s drive to tackle the climate crisis, which also includes planting more than 3,000 trees across the borough, and working with the Mayor of London to support schools to become more energy efficient.
Such initiatives are driving Barnet towards Net Zero, where we only put in as much harmful carbon into the atmosphere as we take out.
Labour’s Cabinet member for Environment and Climate Change, Councillor Alan Schneiderman said: “The Conservatives are led by a declared ‘Net Zero sceptic’ and Reform want our taxes to be spent on dirty energy that pollutes our air.
“From electrical vehicle charging to more trees, Labour is delivering a cleaner, less polluted borough, better for our health and helping to tackle climate change.”
