Tesla signs deal with 2nd gas station operator to sell its Supercharger directly

Tesla has signed a cope with the EG Group, an enormous fuel station and comfort retailer operator, to promote its Supercharger {hardware} to be deployed as an EG-branded product.

It’s the second of such offers that Tesla has made in just some weeks.

Final month, Tesla stunned many when it introduced it reached a deal with BP to sell them $100 million worth of Supercharger hardware to be deployed at BP fuel stations throughout the US underneath the BP model.

It marked one of many uncommon occasions that Tesla has bought Superchargers to third-parties and the primary time it has performed it on such a big scale.

Within the announcement, Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s head of charging infrastructure, stated that this can be a new enterprise that Tesla is coming into.

It didn’t take lengthy to verify that.

At the moment, EG Group introduced that it signed a cope with Tesla to purchase Supercharger items:

“EG Group is happy to announce that it has agreed to a deal to amass Tesla’s newest ultra-fast charging items for EG’s quickly rising ‘evpoint’ enterprise throughout the UK and Europe.”

Not not like the BP deal, EG Group confirmed that the stations wouldn’t be branded Tesla Superchargers, however their very own branding, which is ‘evpoint’.

They wrote i a press launch:

• The chargers will probably be branded “evpoint” and can leverage Tesla’s business main know-how.
• The {hardware} will function on an open community foundation, that means that each one drivers will be capable of entry evpoint chargers whatever the model of car they drive.
• The chargers will even assist the Plug and Cost protocol, which simplifies and automates funds. 
• The primary of the brand new charger items are anticipated to be rolling out earlier than the top of the yr.

In contrast to the BP deal, EG Group nor Tesla revealed the dimensions of this deal.

Nevertheless, Imraan Patel, Chief Technique & Enterprise Officer of EG Group, famous that the corporate at present has 600 EV chargers and plans to have greater than 20,000:

“Our intention is to ship a three-pronged technique to assist us attain our power transition targets. These embody EV charging, supporting different types of vehicular gas, and broader carbon discount, all of that are central to our technique of serving to the world transition to a decrease carbon future. We’ve made vital progress up to now on EV charging, with greater than 600 chargers throughout 189 websites already deployed and a pipeline ready with an ambition for evpoint to roll out greater than 20,000 chargers throughout c.3,600 of our personal websites over time with alternatives throughout third celebration places additionally being pursued.”

EG Group operates over 6,000 websites throughout a number of markets:

Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure, commented on the deal: 

“The fast set up of dependable, easy-to-use EV charging infrastructure is the fitting step in direction of a sustainable future and a key space of focus for us at Tesla. Because of this, we’re excited to make our fast-charging {hardware} obtainable for buy to EG Group, and different leaders within the area.”

It seems like extra of those offers may very well be coming in close to the long run.

Electrek’s Take

That is fairly disruptive for Tesla. Whereas we don’t have the main points, we have now beforehand seen proof that Tesla’s Superchargers are a number of occasions cheaper to deploy than fast-chargers from opponents.

If it begins turning into a significant distributor of chargers to third-parties, like ABB or Tritium, it will possible spin the entire business on its head.

That is variety of what’s occurring within the US with degree 2 charging since NACS grew to become the usual and Tesla began to supply the Common Wall Connector.

Surprisingly, Tesla has managed to additionally make an impression in Europe now, the place the connector battle has been over for some time.