The Gosport MP, recently named Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, made the comments as she visited a Hampshire petrol station that has installed electric vehicle (EV chargers).
The Conservative MP visited a petrol station in her constituency today to find out how private companies are working together to tilt the balance.
Fast-growing Hampshire firm InstaVolt has installed two rapid chargers at Lee-on-the-Solent Service Station, enabling drivers to take their EV from 0 to 80 per cent charge in 30 minutes. The company’s installing thousands of others across the UK at places like gyms and council car parks.
Oli Lodge, managing director of Rusdene Services, which owns and operates the petrol station in Broom Way, says petrol stations should be gearing up for electric cars now.
The InstaVolt chargers at Lee-on-the-Solent are available for electric vehicle drivers to use on a subscription free, pay-as-you-go basis. Motorists simply tap their contactless credit or debit card, charge-up and go. Users are charged only for the electricity they use on a per-unit basis. There is no connection fee, minimum charge or monthly subscription fee.
Like all InstaVolt chargers, they were installed for free and Lee-on-the-Solent Service Station won’t have to pay a penny for them. In fact, it will make a rental income for housing them on its land.