rapid chargers

North Tyneside Council has approved plans put forward by Instavolt and Godwin Developments for Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s largest rapid charging EV hub.

Zest, a UK investor-operator of public charging EV infrastructure, has announced it will provide fast and rapid chargers across four sites for the Stonegate Group, a pub company.

Pod Point has signed a preferred supplier agreement with investment firm Custodian REIT to install EV chargepoints across the UK.

InstaVolt is planning to reach a 1,000 rapid charger milestone in the UK this summer, with its 700​th set to be in operation later this month.

The UK faces a shortfall of nearly 250,000 electric vehicle chargepoints by 2032 if the current rate of growth is maintained, new research has claimed.

​Car charging scheme Iduna has attracted over £4 million in investment in just six days.

​Over the next two years, Birmingham City Council will roll out 394 ‘fast and rapid’ chargepoints around the city.

A quick re-cap of some of the key talking points from day one of Everything EV Live London in November 2019, including talk of Zouk's CIIF, the key obstacles to rapid charger deployment and how public-private partnerships are critical to the EV sector moving forward.

In this round-up of news stories from the electric vehicle ecosystem, new research from Citizens Advice finds that a lack of transparency regarding EV tariffs is confusing consumers, and rapid chargers are on the rise.