{"id":147592,"date":"2018-06-28T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bp-buys-uks-largest-car-charging-firm-chargemaster\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:14:01","slug":"bp-buys-uks-largest-car-charging-firm-chargemaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bp-buys-uks-largest-car-charging-firm-chargemaster\/","title":{"rendered":"BP buys UK&#8217;s largest car charging firm Chargemaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charging point BP branded\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/62CD\/production\/_102239252_bpchargemaster-chargingstation-artist&#039;simpression_flickr.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  BP                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Oil giant BP is buying the UK&#039;s largest electric charging network, Chargemaster, for an undisclosed sum. <\/p>\n<p>BP runs 1,200 petrol forecourts, but said earlier this year it expected renewable energy to be the fastest-growing fuel source. <\/p>\n<p>It said the number of electric vehicles in the UK is set to grow from 135,000 at present to 12 million by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The move echoes one made last year by rival Shell, which bought car charging company NewMotion.<\/p>\n<p>All leading car manufacturers are moving into electric vehicle production. Volkswagen, the world&#039;s biggest carmaker, has said it will offer an electric version of all its 300 models by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>Chargemaster, which will be rebranded BP Chargemaster, currently has 6,500 charging points and also sells electric vehicle charging points for home use.<\/p>\n<p>BP said the acquisition was an important move towards the company becoming the leading provider of energy to low carbon vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>It said one of its goals was to speed up charging capability to enable chargers capable of delivering 100 miles of range in within 10 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Chargemaster, which was founded in 2008, runs POLAR, the largest public charging network in the UK. It has more than 40,000 customers, some of whom pay by monthly subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright BP Oil giant BP is buying the UK&#039;s largest electric charging network, Chargemaster, for an undisclosed sum. BP runs 1,200 petrol forecourts, but said earlier this year it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}