{"id":11055,"date":"2021-12-01T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=11055"},"modified":"2021-12-01T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:13:35","slug":"uk-motorway-services-to-get-giant-battery-packs-for-charging-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/uk-motorway-services-to-get-giant-battery-packs-for-charging-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK motorway services to get giant battery packs for charging EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhighways.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Highways<\/a> has announced plans to invest in Energy Storage Systems (ESS) \u2013 essentially giant battery packs \u2013 for service stations where the grid supply is not enough for rapid charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a311m project will fund the ESSs to store energy in quiet periods, then provide rapid high-power charging at busy times.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of the UK Government\u2019s vision for the rapid charge point network in England which set the goal of around 6,000 high-powered chargers on the motorway network by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>With petrol and diesel vehicles the largest carbon emission contributor on the roads, it is hoped easier access to increased numbers of high-powered charge points will increase driver confidence in electric vehicles on longer journeys, encouraging people to make the switch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new Energy Storage Systems and the rapid chargers they supply will ensure that motorists are unlikely to be caught without somewhere to charge, which is a fantastic move for drivers and the environment accelerating the speed in which we transition to new electric vehicles,\u201d said Malcolm Wilkinson, Head of Energy for National Highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government-owned National Highways has announced plans to invest in Energy Storage Systems (ESS) \u2013 essentially giant battery packs \u2013 for service stations where the grid supply is not enough for rapid charging infrastructure. The \u00a311m project will fund the ESSs to store energy in quiet periods, then provide rapid high-power charging at busy times. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}