UK: Gridserve completes upgrade of its Electric Highway stations
The company has transformed the network of chargers 10 months after acquiring the entire ownership of the sites.
Gridserve has completed its overhaul plans for its “Electric Highway” project. Ten months after getting ownership of the network, the company has upgraded all its chargers across the UK’s motorways. Since June 2021, over 300 existing medium power electric highway chargers at over 130 motorway service areas run by Extra, Moto, Roadchef, Welcome Break and Westmorland, have been replaced by the company.
All of the stations now provide contactless card payments, 24-hour support, real-time status updates and much more. In addition to upgrading the medium power chargers with the latest technology, work continues at pace to drive the motorway high power charging experience to the next level. The firm has already started to deliver new High Power Electric Hubs, which consist of six or more high power chargers, with three of these new sites operational today and a further nine currently under construction.
“Following us commencing the upgrades in 2021, within a matter of months the Gridserve Electric Highway achieved the highest customer satisfaction rating in the network’s 10-year history in Zap-Map’s consumer survey. We’ve had great feedback from drivers on both the network upgrades and also on our new High Power Electric Hubs, which provide the best possible charging experience, and are already enabling more drivers to travel quickly and comfortably around the UK,” said Toddington Harper, CEO of Gridserve.
The company has stated that it will continue to enhance its chargers with several new features. This month also sees the start of the roll out of the dual charging feature on the medium power chargers on the Electric Highway, which will enable multiple connectors to be used at the same time, to double the number of cars that can charge at once at those locations.
