One of the UK’s fastest growing providers of electric car charging points has teamed up with energy supplier, ecotricity, to provide truly ‘zero emission’ energy for electric cars.
POD Point will now work with the renewable energy supplier to provide a totally green solution and ensure that energy available at its charging points is sourced from green sources such as wind, solar and tidal power.
The partnership is designed to address one of the key criticisms levelled at electric cars as usage of such vehicles is set to increase next year. POD Point, which currently has 104 charging points around the UK, acknowledges that the current grid mix is not particularly eco-friendly, undermining the ecological advantage of electric cars which in most circumstances are only zero emission at the point of use.
Polly Rayne from POD Point explains: ’At POD Point we are passionate about encouraging people to move away from their reliance on oil for transport needs. We are very excited to be working with ecotricity to be able to offer a completely green solution for EV charging. There is something really satisfying about knowing that when you are running around in your EV that you’re powered by renewable energy that doesn’t pollute.”
Dale Vince OBE, founder and MD of ecotricity, also agrees, saying: “In the UK we drive 150 billion miles a year and burn almost 24 million tons of oil to do it, about a third of our oil imports. This is simply unsustainable. Nearly a quarter of all the car trips we make are less than two miles, and 95 per cent are less than 100 miles – well within the range of electric cars already available.
According to the ecotricity, the UK could power every journey made by replacing the oil with just a 12 per cent increase in the electricity delivered through the national grid.
