GRIDSERVE

So here's an idea for Mr Milliband and Ms Reeves and whoever's the Prime Minister at the time of posting this video.

Instead of offering a discount off the ticket price, how about a 90% reduction on all public charging for all new full battery electric vehicle buyers for, I don't know, let's say five years? Let's crunch those numbers using data from the website National Vehicle Solutions plus one of the UK's largest public charging network providers, GridServe.

We'll take an average UK driver doing about 7,000 miles a year with a typical EV efficiency of 4 miles per kilowatt hour.

The energy required to do those miles works out at 1,750 kilowatt hours per year, so over five years that'd be 8,750 kilowatt hours.

There's lots of f- super fast charging coming.

I'm seeing 400 kilowatt chargers all over the motorways now, um, that Gridserve are putting in, and there are other charging companies that are putting in super fast chargers.

You want 800 volt architecture in your car to take the faster charging speeds, but it's getting quicker and quicker.

They've just gotta get the price down.

Although I did, um, on for this podcast for Everything Electric a couple of weeks ago, I interviewed Toddington Harper, who is just g- you know, getting, getting into...

Used to be the CEO of Gridserve, is now getting into, um, solar-powered data centers in the Middle East, and he, he's very optimistic about all of that.

Sorry.

So there's another whole conversation there.

Talk a little bit about utilization.

Now, I recently shared, uh, on an episode that despite having the highest number of chargers and the lowest price, Apple Green along the M1 corridor have quite a bit lower utilization than Gridserve who are the incumbent.

So talk to me a little bit about the kind of utilization, 'cause you, you mentioned it earlier on.

What's...

Um, so firstly, yeah, I want every site as mu- much utilization as physically possible.

That generally means that the site is doing really, really well.

However, what I would say is, and again, I, I don't, I can't talk to the Apple Green and Gridserve situation, but what can sometimes slightly skew it, because bear in mind you could have two sites that both do 100 sessions a day, but the utilization numbers are different because of how many units are there and how many bays are there.

So that obviously massively comes into it, and that's why we have really detailed conversations around when we're looking at a site is, well, how big do you want the site to be? How many bays do you want? So if we...