ELEKTROMOTIVE AIMS TO CREATE UK’S BIGGEST
PAY-AS-YOU-GO ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING NETWORK
PAY-AS-YOU-GO ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING NETWORK
- New Charge Your Car joint
venture will manage ‘open-source’ charge points across the UK
- The first subscription-free, pay-as-you-go
recharging network will be expanded from a regional to a national scheme
with a target of 10,000 charge points
- Initiative will support vehicle
manufacturers, charge point manufacturers, charge point owners and EV
drivers
Elektromotive Limited, Europe’s
leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charge points, is to create the UK’s
largest pay-as-you-go, ‘open source’ network of public access charging stations
for EVs, based upon the development of its proven pay-by-phone technology.
The initiative comes as
the result of a new joint venture with Charge your Car (North) Ltd. The new company – Charge Your Car Limited – will
expand the existing Charge your Car (North) Ltd network located predominantly
across North east England, and incorporate other regional networks and
stand-alone units under the well-established Charge Your Car brand. The
goal is to create a recharging network with 10,000 public access pay-as-you-go
charge points located across the UK.
To accelerate its rapid
expansion, the national network will be ‘open source’, meaning that charge
points produced by any manufacturer can be included on the network, provided
they use the industry-standard Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP). Elektromotive,
which has an installed base of more than 3,000 charge points making it one of
Europe’s leading charge point manufacturers, is developing second-generation
back office technology and a new user interface. The joint venture will create a marketplace
that connects charge point owners to EV drivers.
Charge point owners will
be able to improve awareness and usage of their charge points by joining the Charge Your Car network – benefiting
from the shared branding and ongoing promotion, as well as the integrated
billing, management and reporting facilities. It is intended that the joint venture will
establish a fully-managed marketplace that generates sustainable revenues for
charge-point owners, reducing or eliminating the reliance on public-sector
subsidies.
“Charge Your Car is the perfect catalyst for the EV market and
supports all the stakeholders with an interest in EVs,” commented Calvey
Taylor-Haw, founder and Managing Director of Elektromotive. “Charge point owners in both the public and
private sectors have a way to promote their charge points, generate revenue and
manage their infrastructure. EV drivers
have a single access point for recharging that is quick, easy and affordable. Charge point manufacturers have a company that
will help them to sell more charge points and electric vehicle manufacturers
have a company that will help them to sell more vehicles. We are also seeking partners who wish to
implement Charge Your Car outside of
the UK, establishing it as one of the world’s leading recharging brands.”
Colin Herron, Managing
Director of Charge your Car (North) Ltd, added, “Together over the past two
years, Charge your Car (North) Ltd and Elektromotive have collaborated to
develop one of the largest and most advanced EV charging networks in UK, with
the first rapid charge stations and the first pay-as-you-go charge stations. The mission of the joint venture is to ensure
that EV drivers are always within range of a Charge Your Car charge point.”
Currently, Charge your Car
(North) Ltd is the operator of the Charge
Your Car electric vehicle recharging network with 400 publicly accessible
charge points located predominantly in the North East of England.
While operating the new
joint venture, Elektromotive will continue in its role as a charge point
manufacturer and infrastructure solutions provider for private and public
sector organisations worldwide.
