Boom in rapid EV chargepoint installations

An electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging network operator has already matched the total number of chargers it installed last year within the first three months of 2023.

Osprey Charging, founded in 2016 as Engenie, made live 142 new public rapid EV chargepoints in just 10 weeks this year and plans to install and make live another 50 before the end of April.

With more than 500 rapid chargers nationwide, Osprey said it is now the fourth largest GB-wide public rapid charging network. It plans to hit more than 1,000 chargepoints live by the end of this year.

According to recently published figures by Zap Map there were more than 40,000 public charging points across almost 24,000 locations in the UK as of March 2023.

Osprey chief executive Ian Johnston said: “I’m delighted that the deployment of Osprey’s national infrastructure of EV charging stations is at full speed, with the whole team working tirelessly to bring new chargers live at this unprecedented rate. Looking ahead, we are set to continue this pace of rollout and deliver on our business plan of achieving four times as many chargers in 2023 than we did in 2022.

“Now that we have established a broad network our focus is to continue to expand but also provide a high quality of experience for EV drivers all over the country. Over the next two years we will invest over £100 million expanding our nationwide public charging network, establishing the much-needed national infrastructure that drivers can trust and rely on.”