BP Unveils UK's Largest Public EV Charging Hub: A Green Game-Changer At NEC Campus

BP Plc BP has launched the U.K.'s largest public electric vehicle (EV) charging hub on the NEC Campus in the West Midlands.

The Gigahub will help serve the seven million visitors attracted to the NEC Campus annually, along with a wide range of other road users who constitute the area’s average yearly traffic count of 60 million.

Capable of charging 180 EV’s simultaneously, the Gigahub has ultra-fast 16x 300KW DC chargers, of which two are designated accessible bays.

These ultra-fast chargers are capable of charging 30 EVs simultaneously. The site also has a further 150 points for 7KW charging including additional designated accessible bays. 

Gigahub offers charging speeds ranging from 300kW for ultra-fast DC charging to 7kW AC charging for longer stays.

The project is a collaboration between bp pulse, The EV Network (EVN), and NEC Group.

"The transition to electric vehicles is evolving at pace which is why bp pulse is focussed on accelerating the development of the UK’s EV infrastructure, delivering the right charging speeds, in the right locations and investing up to £1 billion to do so,” said vice president of bp pulse UK, Akira Kirton.

BP has set out an ambition ‎to be a net zero company by 2050, with plans to invest up to £18 billion in the U.K. energy system by 2030. This includes up to £1 billion for EV charging infrastructure.

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