Out of Office: Seeing a Milestone

This week, our resident EV evangelist has been out of the office, witnessing firsthand a milestone for the UK EV charging industry.

Last month (April 2025), the UK hit a milestone in rolling out public EV chargers. According to Electric Drives (quoting a report from Octopus Electroverse), there are now more than 100,000 public EV charge points nationwide.

This is excellent news, and if you dig into the numbers, there is even better news for EV drivers; the fastest expansion is happening in rapid and ultra-rapid chargers, which now make up 24% of the public network. 

Over the last couple of years with Dodona, I’ve had the good fortune to work with a lot of innovative Charge Point Operators (CPOs) offering a variety of charging solutions, some aimed at residential overnight charging, to those providing EV drivers, who feel the need for speed, a faster charging experience, here in the UK, the US, and Germany.  

We’ve started telling their stories on this blog, for example, where you can learn more about Pogo Charge or Be.EV, but last week I got out of the office to see the rapid rollout progress for myself as I attended the opening of Source EV’s first ultra-rapid hub on a gloriously sunny day in Edinburgh. 

Source EV Ltd (or as they prefer, just “Source”) is a joint venture between TotalEnergies, a company with its roots in traditional oil and gas (or “wet” fuelling), and SSE plc, a huge power utility company here in the UK. 

Source has publicly shared some ambitious goals. It aims to deploy up to 3,000 ultra-rapid charge points (150 kW and above) across 300 EV hubs within the next five years and gain 20% of the UK EV charging market.

Working with the Dodona platform, I see a lot of the planning that goes into picking EV charging sites, plus the complexity of the data that has to be collected and collated to ensure that it’s feasible and viable. So, getting up close to this site at the end of this process, with its six 160 KW chargers and one ChadeMo (DC fast-charging) connector, and spending some time with the team that made it happen, was an absolute pleasure. 

Seeing for myself the progress CPOs (along with our other clients, of course) are making towards battling the range anxiety and charging experience objections we hear are still hampering the mainstream adoption of EVs. 

So, congrats to all the companies that have invested in the UK to hit last month's 100,000 chargers milestone, and to our friends at Source for their milestone and their first ultra-rapid hub.

You can read more on the launch of Source EV’s first ultra-rapid charging hub here.