Shell Buys UK’s Top EV Charging Network

Shell is buying ubitricity, the European provider of on-street charging for electric vehicles (EVs) that has the largest public EV charging network in the UK, the supermajor said on Monday. The expansion of Shell’s EV charging offering is part of the oil major’s support for low-carbon transport by offering electric vehicle drivers public on-street charge points integrated into existing street infrastructure, the company said. That’s not the first deal for Shell in the EV charging business. As early as 2017, Shell signed a deal…