UK: Shell to Install 800 EV Charging Points At Waitrose Stores By 2025
The extended partnership also foresees increasing the number of Shell forecourt shops that sell Waitrose products from 57 to 125 locations.
Waitrose and Shell announced plans to grow their partnership by installing hundreds of electric vehicle charging points in the supermarket’s car parks and by more than doubling the number of Shell forecourt shops where Waitrose food is available.
The companies have announced that they are targeting the installation of 800 Shell Recharge electric vehicle charging points in up to 100 Waitrose locations across the UK by 2025. Each site is expected to have six 22kW and two 50kW rapid charging points so customers can charge their vehicles while they shop.
Electric vehicle charging is expected to launch at the first Waitrose shop early next year and will represent Shell Recharge’s first move into “destination charging”, whereby customers charge their vehicle while it is parked at a location they are primarily visiting for another activity such as shopping. Shell’s ambition is to grow its Shell Recharge-branded network to 5,000 charge points on forecourts and other locations by 2025.
The companies have also reached an agreement to increase the number of Shell Select stores offering Waitrose food by a further 68 across the UK, bringing the total to at least 125 by 2025.
In addition, John Lewis’ Click & Collect service will be made available in as many as 80 new Shell forecourt shops this summer, which will take the total number of locations where the service is available in the UK to more than 1,000.
Source: petrolplaza
