The new chargers are capable of up to 350kW and are powered entirely from net zero carbon energy, located across some of the UK’s busiest roads. All chargers feature both CCS and CHAdeMO connectors, accept contactless payment and provide real-time status updates to a myriad of popular EV charging maps.
By James Foster
February 10, 2023
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Reading is one of the four new locations commissioned by Gridserve in January.
After an exceptional year in 2022, Gridserve has now installed 173 High Power chargers across 16 Electric Super Hubs and two Electric Forecourts. There are now chargers installed in 169 locations across the Gridserve Electric Highway, delivering over 10 million EV miles to the UK’s electric vehicles every month.
Aviva is to invest up to £110m in the UK-based electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure specialist Connected Kerb.
Connected Kerb says that the multi-million-pound investment into UK public charging infrastructure - made through Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of insurer Aviva - will be critical to delivering the Government’s plan of installing more than 300,000 chargers by 2030.
Connected Kerb adds that the investment will support its plans of delivering 190,000 on-street EV chargers by 2030.
Chinese EV maker and battery technology company BYD has announced new technology that it says will enable its latest EVs to be charged with up to 400km of range in only five minutes.