Natasha Robinson

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Natasha Robinson

Joint Head, OZEV

An electric vehicle driver herself, Natasha Robinson leads OZEV, formerly the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), alongside Gary Cooke and Katie Black. Remaining a joint unit between the UK Government’s Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in 2022, against a backdrop of double-digit EV registrations, OZEV announced a £1.6 billion government fund to expand the UK charging network. Around 300,000 public chargers are expected to be installed by 2030. This was in addition to a new pilot scheme backed by £20 million of both government and industry funding to install more than 1,000 new electric vehicle charge points in nine local authorities. This new focus on charging saw the Plug-in Car Grant discontinued, but the scheme helped increase EV sales from less than 1,000 in 2011 to almost 100,000 in the first five months of 2022.

Natasha Robinson