Moto Exeter in the South West of England is the latest motorway service area to unveil a new Gridserve Electric Hub.
The all-new site, located at junction 30 of the M5, features 12 high-power chargers with a maximum 350kW capacity – enough for the latest EVs to add up to 100-miles of range in less than 10 minutes.
This latest site follows last month’s opening of another Electric Hub at Moto Swansea – the first high-power public charging facility of its kind in Wales. Similar to Moto Swansea, the Electric Hub at Moto Exeter has been designed to support drivers who are likely to be traveling long distances and therefore require quick convenient charging.
Moto added the Exeter services is a popular rest stop, particularly during the holiday season, as it sits on one of the major arterial routes to tourist hot spots in Cornwall and Devon, including Dartmoor National Park.
Not only does this latest Electric Hub boast 12 EV chargers, two of which have been designed as accessible bays, it also features both CCS and CHAdeMO connectors, accepts contactless payment and is supplied with 100% net zero carbon energy from Gridserves’s hybrid solar and battery farms.
Furthermore, Gridserve has committed to install another 12 high-power chargers at Moto Exeter as part of future development to provide additional assurances for both present and future EV drivers.
Ken McMeikan, Moto chief executive, said: “At Moto, we are absolutely passionate about transforming the electric vehicle charging experience for drivers across the UK’s motorways by delivering the capacity, reliability, simplicity and charging speed UK motorists need.
“As the biggest motorway services operator in the UK, Moto is uniquely positioned to help redress the geographic imbalances in the EV charging market and we are delivering on that potential. We are delighted with the progress that our partnership with Gridserve is making towards delivering a future of more sustainable motoring.”
