BP Chargemaster has claimed that its public charging points in the UK now regularly supply over 60MWh of energy per day, equating to 1.5 million miles per week of driving by EVs.
Based on the average UK new car CO₂ emissions figure of 124.5g/km, EVs using BP Chargemaster’s public charging points are avoiding around 300 tonnes of CO₂ emissions every week.
David Newton, COO of BP Chargemaster, said: “Powering around 1.5 million electric miles a week makes us the most-used public charging infrastructure operator in the UK and we are proud to serve thousands of electric vehicle drivers every day.
“We have seen incredible growth in the utilisation of our public charging network over the past 12 months, with both the number of charging sessions and number of users more than doubling, and the amount of energy supplied almost tripling.
“This reflects the larger batteries and the longer distances being driven by the latest electric vehicles.”
BP Chargemaster is continuing to expand Polar, the UK’s largest public charging network now with about 7,000 charging points available, including with the deployment of 150kW chargers on BP forecourts.
BP’s first 150kW forecourts are already live in London and Essex, with other installations in England and Wales going live imminently, and the first sites in Scotland due before the end of the year.
All new rapid and ultra-fast chargers on the Polar network are accessed through contactless payment terminals, with existing rapid chargers being retrofitted with the technology by the middle of next year.
