UK’s family-owned garden centre group British Garden Centres has selected Osprey Charging for the rollout of rapid EV charging at its UK stores.
Osprey’s chargers can add 100 miles of range to an EV in 20 to 30 minutes, the rapid EV charging points network said.
“We look forward to a fruitful partnership as we work together to offer EV charging at more of its centres up and down the country,” Osprey Charging’s CEO Ian Johnston said.
A total of 12 sites are confirmed with a mix of larger hubs and some smaller installations depending on the size of the site and availability of power. The British Garden Centre in Carmarthen, Wales, will be the first to offer an Osprey rapid charge to its customers, at a hub with 8 ultra-rapid (150kW) chargers opening later this year. The Carmarthen hub will be followed by high-power hubs planned in Wimborne (Dorset), Carr Gate (Yorkshire), Braintree (Essex) and Harrow (London). The other sites include Osterley, Wolseley, Albrighton, Newton Regis, Gillberdyke, Towneley and Brigg.
Amy Stubbs, daughter of the founder, from British Garden Centres said the partnership will allow the company to facilitate the growing number of their EV driving customers who will be able to charge their vehicles “at a time and location that is convenient for them, whilst they visit our stores’’.
British Garden Centres is reviewing its entire estate with the aim of bringing Osprey’s charging technology to all its centres across the UK over the next few years. Last month Osprey committed to delivering accessible and safe charging when it became the first charging network to subscribe to independent public EV charging endorsement body ChargeSafe, to inspect and rate its sites. This pledge will ensure the charging facilities at each British Garden Centre are as accessible as possible in the space available.