By Frankie Peck
BBC News
A holiday park owner has said the demand for electric vehicle charging points is on the rise.
Martin Cox, who has six holiday park sites across Dorset, has warned businesses don’t have charging infrastructure in the area.
He said: “We’ve never supplied our customers with petrol or diesel, but suddenly our customers expect us to have electric charging points.”
Dorset Council said the increase of charging points was a “key action”.
“People arrive, they have travelled two and a half hours,” Mr Cox said. “But when they go out the next day, they will have to find somewhere to charge their car quite rapidly.”
He added: “We have, at the moment, six charging points – the most we can put into the current infrastructure that we have.”
There are 660,000 electric cars currently on the road, according to Zap Map.
Across the UK, it found there are around 7,580 rapid and ultra rapid charging devices but Dorset Council said there were only 276 in the county, often found in more urban areas.
