Motorway services operator Moto has announced a “major step change” for Moto as it predicts that almost one in three cars arriving at its sites in 2030 will be an electric vehicle. It is evaluating becoming a charge point operator in its own right alongside its current partners Tesla and Gridserve and it is already exploring the potential for renewable energy generation at 19 of its sites across the UK.
The company has appointed Alan McCarthy-Wyper, previously at Gridserve, as managing director, EV and energy, to assume responsibility for rapidly accelerating delivery on the transition to clean fuels.
Moto said McCarthy-Wyper’s appointment to a new operating board level role Is a ‘step change’. The company said it “expects to be dispensing the equivalent of a quarter of the power generated by an average size nuclear power station to motorists in just seven years’ time”. Moto is rolling out ‘ultra rapid’ charging hubs: it now has nearly 400 chargers at 27 service areas and is targetting almost 2,500 ultra rapid chargers by 2030. It anticipates that R that 10% of cars on the road in 2025 will be EVs, and 80% by 2040.