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Charging into the future

Helping drivers go electric

Electric travel is the future.  

The UK is planning to phase out the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles. It’s part of a drive to reduce carbon emissions and clean up the air we all breathe. 

It’s a big change for drivers – and we’re here to help.  

If you need to drive in Greater Manchester, we want you to have the confidence to go electric knowing you can easily charge on the go.  

Our commitment to electric travel is a key part of our 2040 Transport Strategy vision for Greater Manchester to have: 

“World-class connections that support long-term, sustainable economic growth and access to opportunity for all.” 

The four key objectives of the vision are to: 

Support economic growth

Protect our environment

Improve everyone's quality of life

Embrace new technology

Meeting the charging challenge

The EV industry is installing more and more charging points, but not enough to keep up with demand. That’s where we come in. 

Graphic showing charging targets

We think we need more than ten times as many EV connection points in Greater Manchester by 2035 to meet demand.  

  • 2024: There are more than 1,300 publicly available EV chargers in Greater Manchester with approximately 2,200 connectors.  

  • 2035: We need a ten-fold increase needed to supply around 23,000 public charge point connections. 

We’re working closely with commercial charge point operators and Greater Manchester’s ten local authorities to bring about a step-change in the number of charging points. 

Building on our 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy, the upcoming Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan will have more detail about our future ambitions.  

To see the latest map of all publicly available charging points in Greater Manchester, visit our ‘Chargers everywhere’ page. 

You can read more our progress so far and future plans below. 

What we’re doing

We want to help people and businesses who’ll find it hardest to switch to EV.

We’ve already installed 24 new Be.EV rapid chargers and 60 charging points for use by taxi and private hire drivers.

Greater Manchester also has £16m government funding to install many more public charging points across our city region.

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Building a greener future

Greater Manchester is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2038.

That means going electric, with improved access to EV charging points and cleaner, greener transport.

We’re rolling out the Bee Network to make it much easier to get around by bus, tram, train, walking, wheeling or cycling.

So we can all get around in a way that protects our environment, improves our quality of life, and helps Greater Manchester keep growing.

Tram in manchester city centre

Our trams run on renewable electricity and don’t produce any exhaust fumes.

Row of electric bee network buses

We’re investing in electric zero emission buses as part of the Bee Network.

Close up of wheel on starling bank bike

You can hire electric bikes as part of the Starling Bank Bikes hire scheme.

Cleaning up our air

The investment-led Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan is with government for approval.

It includes multi-million pound plans for more investment in zero emission electric and clean buses, and electric taxis and private hire vehicles.

Electric bee network bus and taxi