A newly opened ultra-fast electric vehicle charging station is giving fleets and company car and van drivers a vision of the future. The GRIDSERVE Electric Forecourt in Essex, UK, has been designed with 36 superchargers with up to 350kW charging power, capable of adding 320km of range in 20 minutes, and even faster as vehicle […]
Gridserve opens UK’s first EV-only charging forecourt
UK renewable energy company Gridserve has opened the United Kingdom’s first ever Electric Forecourt, boasting 36 high power EV chargers and a service centre with numerous retailers WHSmith Travel and Costa Coffee. Gridserve’s Electric Forecourt – a term the company has trademarked, naturally – was opened for business on Sunday near Braintree, Essex, in England’s […]
The only way is electric: Gridserve eyes Essex site for first of 100 EV charging stations
Plans for the first in a 100-strong pipeline of new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) charging forecourts around the UK have been unveiled by Gridserve, with the company predicting drivers will be able to power up a typical EV at its first site in Essex in less than half an hour. Forming part of its proposed […]
Tesla Supercharger Supremacy In UK Soon To Be Lost To Gridserve?
This article is about the new Gridserve EV charging stations to be set up in the UK. A lack of charging infrastructure has always been an obstacle to the adoption of electric vehicles. It is also an inherent failure of the free market that no commercial company is likely to invest in charging infrastructure without […]