Jardine Motor spends £2.5m on EV charging infrastructure

Jardine Motor Group has spent £2.5m installing charging infrastructure for EVs across its UK network.

Sales of EVs have been rising fast from a low base. The group said it was “hugely important” to have the infrastructure in place to meet rising demand.

“Over the last few years, we have invested approximately £2.5m into electrical infrastructure, which includes every part of the customer journey, from parking outside our dealerships to the service bays and workshop areas.

“Whilst we know that this investment is only the start, there are plans to continually review our ways of working so that every single electric vehicle owner has the same seamless experience as a customer who owns a traditional petrol or diesel vehicle, it said.

Jardine Motor Group property director Stephen Pettyfer said:

“In order to prepare for having the electric vehicles on site across all of our sites we have now done something to have electrical infrastructure for charging.

“That comes to installing new power supply, quite often a new transformer putting new cables and the charging infrastructure in place,” he said.

The NFDA argues that dealers have a key role to play in increasing awareness of electric vehicles.

Some of the UK’s biggest dealer groups have signed up to the new Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) scheme which was launched by the NFDA last year to help customers buying electric cars.

According to cap hpi electric vehicles are now the fastest selling cars on UK forecourts, taking 39 days to sell at an average price of £19,000.