The number of EV charging sessions on Gridserve’s motorway charging network has tripled since June 2021, with a quadrupling of energy supplied.  

The Gridserve Electric Highway is now one of the most highly utilised charging networks in the UK, charging more than 100,000 EVs every month

The data for the Electric Highway network, acquired a year ago by Gridserve from Ecotricity, indicates that it’s now one of the most highly utilised charging networks in the UK, charging more than 100,000 EVs every month. At the same time, the average charge time on the network has decreased in-line with faster and more reliable charging.  

In the last year, Gridserve has improved dependability, ease of use and availability of Electric Highway chargers under a multimillion-pound programme. It’s upgraded over 160 charging locations with new chargers, delivered an additional seven High Power Electric Super Hubs across the motorway network – each with a bank of 6 to 12 x 350kW-capable chargers – and it’s opened a new flagship Norwich Electric Forecourt. Dozens of additional sites are also already under development and in construction.   

Under the investment, charging reliability for the network has increased to up to 99% – the goal is to push it higher.   

Accessibility has also improved, with contactless payment now available on all chargers, compared to none a year ago. Each Electric Super Hub also includes at least one extra-wide accessible charging bay for every six EV charging spaces, and across the network, all three connection types (CCS, CHAdeMO and Type 2 for AC) are available, catering for every type of EV.  

The network is also now integrated with dozens of maps, apps and navigation platforms, showing real-time availability of chargers and supporting journey planning across the UK.  

Toddington Harper, founder and CEO of Gridserve, added: “Whilst we have materially improved EV charging across the UK, we have only touched the surface in terms of delivering the full extent of our plans, and it remains our mission to continually improve our network to provide increasingly large numbers of EV drivers with the confidence that they can set off on any length of journey, to anywhere in the country, driving any type of EV, and have a better experience than making the same trip in a petrol or diesel vehicle.”

The firm is also marking its one-year anniversary of the Gridserve Electric Highway with a competition that will see five drivers win up to 1,000 miles of free charge across the entire network.  

To enter, drivers must find the Gridserve birthday-wrapped chargers hidden across the network and submit an image on Twitter or Instagram tagging Gridserve and using the hashtag #GSElectricHighwayBday, to enter the draw. The competition will close at 23:59 on Sunday 31 July 2022, and winners will be announced on Twitter and Instagram by 11am on Friday 12 August 2022.