Request ID: FOI-1242-2223 Date published: 15 September 2022
You asked
Hello TFL,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from TFL. Please may you provide me with:
1. Which companies, specialising in electric vehicle recharging, including Charging Point Operators (CPOs), have received payments or are due to receive payments, from National Government, specifically OZEV funding, to install, maintain, procure or operate publicly-accessible electric vehicle recharging points across the UK?
• Please provide all current and/more present names/iterations of company names, inclusive of companies that have since closed for business
2. How much public money has been provided to the aforementioned companies for the installation, maintenance, procurement or operation of publicly accessible electric vehicle recharging points to date? Please provide a break down by; company, year of funding and note the number of charging points provisioned by said funding
3. How much public money has been set assigned, or earmarked for the installation, maintenance, procurement or operation of publicly accessible electric vehicle recharging points, across the United Kingdom?
4. How much public money has been provided to the following companies for the installation, maintenance, procurement or operation of publicly accessible electric vehicle recharging points to date?
a. BP Pulse/Chargemaster Limited (a subsidiary of BP Plc)
b. Shell Recharge (a subsidiary of Shell Plc)
c. Ubitricity (a subsidiary of Shell Plc)
d. Source London (a subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE)
e. GeniePoint (a subsidiary of Engie SA)
f. Ionity (joint venture between BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, Hyundai Motor Group and Volkswagen Group)
Please provide the information in the form of an electronic copy.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-1242-2223/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18 August 2022 asking for information about electric vehicle charging points.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
As part of the TfL rapid charging project, TfL installed 300 electric vehicle rapid charging points across TfL and borough land and highway. Through this, TfL produced a procurement framework, enabling us to procure batches of sites to the market. As a result, we did not directly invest funding into charge point operators, instead we used the funding, granted to us by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles to complete the power enabling works at each site and cover the staff resourcing of the project.
In a small number of cases, we did work directly with suppliers to oversee and contribute to the installation of charging points.
We provided Shell with £32,023.92 (inclusive VAT), to install four rapid charging points.
Bp Pulse (formally bp Chargemaster) were paid a grant worth £200,000 to deliver enabling works for 16 rapid charging points across eight Q-Park locations.
While we do have some Source London charging points across our network, there was no public spend for these sites.
If this is not the information you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact me.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
