British Gasoline, the UK’s largest power and residential companies firm, has partnered with Osprey Charging, one of many UK’s largest networks of speedy electrical car (EV) charging factors, to assist transition its autos to an all-electric fleet and simplify the charging course of for its drivers.
The partnership offers British Gasoline engineers with direct entry to Osprey’s nationwide community of over 300 speedy charging stations all through the UK, making a easy driver expertise and centralised fleet billing to help British Gasoline’ electrical fleet operations.
With round 9,000 autos, British Gasoline is among the UK’s largest fleet operators and is working in direction of changing its whole fleet to turn out to be absolutely electrical underneath its net-zero ambition.
By partnering with nationwide charging networks, British Gasoline can create a handy and seamless cost technique by way of one electrical gasoline card, enhancing the EV public charging expertise for its engineers and accelerating electrification. Osprey is the primary community to ship this revolutionary integration.
The partnership has been made attainable by way of direct technical interoperability between Osprey’s proprietary software program platform, Volo, and British Gasoline’ personal fleet administration system, offering the power to centrally and mechanically account for fleet public charging prices.[1]
As a part of the collaboration the British Gasoline fleet may even have entry to the 150 excessive energy EV charging hubs Osprey will ship by 2024 as a part of a £75 million funding programme to exceed drivers’ expectations for charger availability and velocity.
Ian Johnston, CEO of Osprey Charging mentioned,
We’re thrilled that British Gasoline has chosen to companion with Osprey to unlock additional EV adoption and lead the transition to the way forward for transport. Our market-leading business and fleet roaming capabilities present much more EV drivers with the last word charging expertise by way of entry to our nationwide, dependable and open speedy charger community.
James Rooney, Fleet Engineering and Innovation Supervisor at British Gasoline, mentioned,
It’s important that we help our engineering crew with not simply an accessible community of charging factors, however a way of paying for charging that’s problem free. We all know that round seven in ten of our drivers don’t have entry to residence charging and partnerships akin to it will assist to offer the boldness required that making the change to electrical is achievable.
