FOI request detail

Electric Vehilces and Road User Charging

Request ID: FOI-2565-2223
Date published: 02 February 2023

You asked
Good evening Please may you provide me with the number of electric vehicles that have entered the congestion charge zone per month for each month since January 2018. Please may you provide the same information for the ULEZ zone areas? If it is easier to group “electric vehicles” into those that have the electric vehicle exemption applied to them, that is fine.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-2565-2223

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 12th January 2023 asking for information about electric vehicles entering the Congestion Charge and Ultra Low Emission zones.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

“Please may you provide me with the number of electric vehicles that have entered the congestion charge zone per month for each month since January 2018.

Please may you provide the same information for the ULEZ zone areas?

If it is easier to group “electric vehicles” into those that have the electric vehicle exemption applied to them, that is fine.”

Note that we do not record the number of electric vehicles being driven in the Congestion Charging zone nor the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ). For ULEZ, all electric vehicles meet the relevant emissions standards and are compliant. We therefore have no reason to record this information. For Congestion Charging, battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are eligible for the cleaner vehicle discount which entitles the vehicle to a 100% discount from the charge. This is subject to registration with us.

When a vehicle is registered for the CVD and driven in the Congestion Charging zone during charging hours the registration is still captured by the camera network, and it is then matched against the same vehicle registration listed on the CVD account and removed from the scope of the scheme.

The table below shows the number of times per month a vehicle registered on CVD account has been driven in the zone. Please note that this is not unique vehicle registrations but every journey. So if one vehicle registered on a CVD account makes 100 journeys into the zone in a given year it is counted 100 times. The data is correct up to and including the 19th January 2023.
 
Year/MonthVehicle captures settled against CVD
2018373,890
Jan34,467
Feb31,031
Mar32,316
Apr28,973
May31,977
Jun31,803
Jul30,012
Aug26,194
Sep29,438
Oct34,271
Nov37,389
Dec26,019
2019510,328
Jan36,767
Feb32,407
Mar37,769
Apr32,122
May44,458
Jun43,973
Jul48,513
Aug40,248
Sep49,470
Oct52,910
Nov51,018
Dec40,673
2020753,853
Jan52,824
Feb50,333
Mar37,217
May11,271
Jun43,816
Jul74,474
Aug79,279
Sep97,660
Oct108,415
Nov93,038
Dec105,526
20211,532,563
Jan82,455
Feb87,679
Mar111,731
Apr122,320
May139,237
Jun141,952
Jul139,040
Aug127,033
Sep142,343
Oct178,696
Nov144,633
Dec115,444
20221,572,207
Jan133,067
Feb135,961
Mar133,891
Apr121,931
May134,831
Jun131,228
Jul130,246
Aug127,491
Sep134,268
Oct138,768
Nov142,868
Dec107,657
202376,812
Jan76,812
Grand Total4,819,653

If this is not the information you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
 

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