Get ahead with EV infrastructure

Did you know transport accounts for the largest proportion of Scope 1 and 3 carbon emissions worldwide? The transition to EVs is therefore the most significant way to reduce these, alongside other ways to reduce your organisation’s carbon emissions. Leading organisations are already supporting their people, customers and suppliers to make the switch. If you haven’t started, now’s the time.

Mitie works with organisations across the UK to develop an appropriate EV strategy. We gain an understanding of your fleet and ESG goals to identify the impact of a switch to electric. In close collaboration, we design, build and install all the EV infrastructure your estate needs. This will always follow emerging best practices for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

The transition to EV is not just about achieving your business goals, but it is also important to your people and the community around you. Even with small operational fleets, investing in EV charging infrastructure is critical to support net zero targets and make sure colleagues are on board with the plans. There are many benefits:

• Attract new talent by demonstrating your environmental commitment

• Retain your people by boosting morale by demonstrating your shared values

• Improve employee satisfaction by including access to convenient EV charging points as part of the standard employee benefits package

• Help colleagues to save on vehicle fuel costs

• Support the move to EV for all colleagues, including those who cannot access charging infrastructure at home

The government ban on new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles comes into effect in 2035. This means that for leading organisations, successful transition to EV is perhaps the most important of the many challenges they face today. The support of an experienced partner is critical.

With an award-winning fleet of over 6,000 EVs, Mitie has detailed experience of the process and can apply in-house knowledge to assist partners with their transition. As well as helping identify suitable EV’s for your organisation, we’ll develop a bespoke transition strategy for implementing electric vehicle charging infrastructure, considering your specific EV challenges. This ensures infrastructure is fit for purpose and deployed in the appropriate location and the right time.

As more organisations and drivers make the switch to EV, there has been criticism of the necessary infrastructure failing to keep up with demand.*

With a marked upswing in organisations transitioning their fleets, Mitie has worked to ensure our partners have everything necessary to keep their electric vehicles on the road. This includes collaborating with fuel providers and service station operators to install new high-voltage, ultra-rapid chargers that make it easier to recharge quickly, thus reducing driver dwell time.

Increasing the number of chargers at client sites and on public forecourts is essential to enable the successful switch to an EV fleet.

* Electric car chargers: Almost one third of UK sites are in London – BBC News