GRIDSERVE Sustainable Energy Limited represents more than just EV adoption , providing UK-wide charging infrastructure and green energy solutions

Aside from driving leasable EVs and checking out the company ’ s forecourt setup , Clark talks about the journey of the company to-date and provides more insight into future electrification plans .

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR ROLE AND EXPERIENCE WITH EVS

I ' ve been an EV driver for a long time , and part of my role within GRIDSERVE is to electrify the nation . That ’ s what our CEO Toddington Harper says .

Our team looks at all sorts of things EV-related , whether that be through releasing provision of the business or how fleets are going to access our network going forward .

Could you explain why GRIDSERVE is more than just a charging forecourt operator , and its work in sustainable energy ?

The sustainable energy side is much wider than just the forecourts . We have what we call a ‘ sun-to-wheel ’ logic — a play on the old phraseology of ‘ well-to-wheel ’ about digging up oil , refining it , transporting it , supplying it to petrol stations , and so on .

We ' re still harvesting sunlight ; it ' s just that we ' re not waiting 250 million years to dig it up . We ' re taking it from the sky on day one . Our energy source is the sun , our ‘ oil refinery ’ is battery storage , our ‘ petrol station ’ is an electric forecourt ( or part of the wider electric highway infrastructure ), and our vehicles are still vehicles but without tailpipes .

So we very much look at generation , distribution , and consumption of energy through the whole ecosystem .

HOW DOES GRIDSERVE SELECT A SITE FOR AN ELECTRIC FORECOURT ?

We ' ve got an entire data team that looks into that . There are lots of different metrics that we need to consider . One of them is power , so we need to make sure we ' re able to get

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