On-street EV charging specialist char.gy has expanded its live network by 28% and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 24%.
The findings of the B Corp certified company were revealed in its second annual impact report, which showed active charge point sockets rose from 3,879 to 4,978 over the year, while total emissions fell from 904.8 tCO2e to 688.6 tCO2e.
On an intensity basis, char.gy now emits 138.3 tCO2e for every 1,000 active sockets, down from 233.3 the previous year and 332.9 in its baseline year – a 58% reduction that puts it ahead of its 2030 target of 161.2 tCO2e per 1,000 sockets five years early.
It attributes the emissions improvement on hardware design, with a transition to recycled aluminium for the casings of its core Flow charge points, reducing embodied carbon in each unit by around 30%.
Its own-design charge point controller – which targets Scope 3 Category 1 emissions, the company’s single largest category – has entered final testing and will be deployed in units from 2026, it added.
char.gy delivered 14.4m kWh of renewable electricity to drivers over the year, up from 10.3m kWh, a growth of 40% – ahead of the 28% increase in sockets.
Energy delivered per socket rose around 9% as a result, indicating rising utilisation rather than more hardware in the ground, it said.
The company won six further LEVI contracts during the year, taking its cumulative total to eight, and secured around 20,000 sockets under contracts awarded in the period.
Those council contracts carry social value obligations that char.gy expects to deliver over £100m of localised benefit over the next fifteen years, across education, employment and community investment.
John Lewis, CEO of char.gy, said:
“The two headline numbers in this report mean something important when taken together. We grew the network by 28% and cut our absolute emissions by nearly a quarter in the same twelve months. For an infrastructure business scaling at our pace, that is the test of this decade: showing you can build quickly without your footprint growing with you.”
“Behind the 14,439 tonnes of CO2 this network kept out of the air are 46 million miles of driving, and almost all of those miles were done by people who cannot plug in at home. That is who on-street charging exists for.”
