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Electric Forecourt.
Britain's first electric car forecourt opens TODAY: First of 100 new 'future-proof' stations has been completed in Essex with 36 vehicle chargers
The Gridserve Electric Forecourt in Braintree is the first of 100 to be built across the UK in the next 5 years
It has a range of chargers, including 6 Tesla Superchargers and 350kW 'future-proof' devices
Charging takes 20-30 minutes and costs 24p per kWh - less than £10 for an average EV to go from 20% to 80%
Some 36 EVs can be charged simultaneously at the net-zero carbon station, which uses renewable energy
Power is supplied from solar panels on the station's canopy and a 60-acre solar farm in Bedfordshire - and surplus energy is stored in a 6 megawatt-hour batteries
Gridserve also partnered with Hitachi Capital to provide an EV leasing service operating from the Essex site
Gridseve's pioneering Electric Forecourt is located near Braintree, Essex, and is the first of 100 sites to be built across the country in the next five years as part of a £1billion nationwide programme. The aim is to provide a reliable and comprehensive network of charging stations for supply the growing number of electric vehicle drivers ahead of the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-9019301/The-UKs-EV-charging-forecourt-opened-TODAY-Essex.html
The Gridserve Electric Forecourt in Braintree is the first of 100 to be built across the UK in the next 5 years
It has a range of chargers, including 6 Tesla Superchargers and 350kW 'future-proof' devices
Charging takes 20-30 minutes and costs 24p per kWh - less than £10 for an average EV to go from 20% to 80%
Some 36 EVs can be charged simultaneously at the net-zero carbon station, which uses renewable energy
Power is supplied from solar panels on the station's canopy and a 60-acre solar farm in Bedfordshire - and surplus energy is stored in a 6 megawatt-hour batteries
Gridserve also partnered with Hitachi Capital to provide an EV leasing service operating from the Essex site
Gridseve's pioneering Electric Forecourt is located near Braintree, Essex, and is the first of 100 sites to be built across the country in the next five years as part of a £1billion nationwide programme. The aim is to provide a reliable and comprehensive network of charging stations for supply the growing number of electric vehicle drivers ahead of the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-9019301/The-UKs-EV-charging-forecourt-opened-TODAY-Essex.html
Comments
ROBERT HARDMAN: The novelty of it all takes some time to sink in. But it is not the tranquillity which is most peculiar, nor all the technology, nor the fact that this is the first electric service station in Britain - and very possibly the world. It is the loos. Low-lit, self-contained, unisex rooms (not cubicles) with tropical plants outside and a pine finish within, they could have been beamed in from some chi-chi restaurant in London 's West End. They are certainly not what you would expect to find in a layby on the A131 outside Braintree, Essex.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9028749/ROBERT-HARDMAN-reviews-Britains-electric-forecourt-complete-posh-loos-gym-bikes.html