Consumers
User experience prioritised.
Designed for practicality, our reliable ultra-rapid EV charging hubs will be conveniently located and offer competitive pricing.
Smarter EV charging solutions for tomorrow
Mission
Everything begins with the site. Location, location, location...
Onward is a new UK Charge Point Operator, deploying real estate expertise and proprietary software tools to acquire, develop and operate a geographically diverse portfolio of ultra-rapid public EV charging hubs for consumer and commercial fleet customers.
Built for cars and vans.
34.5m electric cars on UK roads by 2045, with the ZEV mandate as it stands.
Market
The proof is in the data
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- End 2030 80% of all new car sales to be zero emission
- End 2035 Sales of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars banned
Sources GOV.UK New AutoMotiveOpens in a new tab
ScrollFebruary 2018 to December 2036
Battery electric car registrations exceeded petrol in 2026.
Who
Selecting sites that stand apart.
Onward in numbers
100+years of combined real estate, EV & Logistics experience
4Founding Executives
3Non-Executive Directors
Executives & Co-founders
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Our customers
Who we build for.
Our site design and layout harmoniously accommodates both the consumer and commercial van driver.
Commercial fleets
Uptime optimised.
Key focus on speed, availability and reliability ensuring maximum time on the road.
What
Designed to deliver speed and reliability.
Ultra-rapid charging hubs, built for consumers and commercial fleet.
The Onward hub
12–24ultra-rapid chargers per hub
+75%larger charging bays
100%of bays with disability access
The Onward hub
Accommodates all vehicle sizes.
Disciplined focus on speed, reliability, availability and user experience.
Consumers
Bespoke design.
Hub design will maximise user experience.
Consumers
Ultra-rapid chargers only.
State-of-the-art charging equipment fully powered by grid and batteries.
Consumers
Competitive pricing.
Focus on value for money.
Commercial fleets
Proprietary software.
Delivers charging infrastructure to maximise uptime and minimise disruption.
Commercial fleets
Utilisation agreements.
Guaranteed charging when it is needed most.
Commercial fleets
75% larger charging bays.
Plentiful space for everyone.
75% larger bays, accommodating everyone.
Site requirement
What makes an Onward site?
How
Everything begins with the site.
Three tools score it. Real estate judgement confirms it.
View our 3D DemoTypical Onward site · 3D model
Three software tools
SAT Site Assessment Tool Identifies locations.
- Scores: Connectivity, commercial and consumer.
- Assesses power availability and determines flood risk.
- Identifies local amenity and competitor sites.
- Back-tested with the DAT.
DAT Demand Analysis Tool Measures demand.
- Measures utilisation across the market.
- Multiple filters for optimum analysis.
- Informs drivers & patterns of demand.
CAT Commercial Analysis Tool A solution for the fleet customer.
- Developed in conjunction with the CBRE supply chain team.
- Designed to inform a hub network to support the commercial fleet EV transition.
- Used in conjunction with customers for bespoke fleet strategies.
Top-down and bottom-up site evaluation.
Where the tools point
A site worth building on.
ESG
Living the values of responsible investing.
Getting things right from the start.
Sustainability
Powered by 100% renewable energy. Climate reporting aligned with the TCFD framework.
Governance
Transparency, accountability and rigorous risk management.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Equitable access, inclusive and fair opportunity.
Read the full statement
Sustainability
Onward seeks to support commercial fleets and private consumers in achieving measurable decarbonisation through dependable, high-capacity EV charging infrastructure engineered for operational excellence. Our solutions prioritise renewable energy sourcing, intelligent load management, and data-driven optimisation to ensure maximum uptime and predictable performance.
Via integrating seamlessly with fleet workflows and delivering long-term cost efficiency, we enable organisations to meet sustainability commitments. We will align our climate reporting with the TCFD framework, ensuring clear governance, robust risk assessment, and transparent metrics.
Climate considerations inform our strategy as we expand reliable, 100% renewable-powered EV-charging infrastructure that supports the transition to low-carbon transport. We will evaluate both transition and physical climate risks across our network and integrate these into planning, investment decisions, and operational resilience.
We will track key indicators such as renewable-energy usage, charger efficiency, and emissions avoided for customers, and we are committed to continuous improvement as climate expectations and regulations evolve.
Governance
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance as we scale our EV-charging infrastructure. Our decision-making is guided by transparency, accountability, and rigorous risk management to ensure long-term value creation for our investors, partners, and customers.
We operate with clear oversight structures, robust financial controls, and disciplined compliance processes that align with industry best practice and emerging regulatory frameworks.
By embedding governance excellence into every aspect of our operations, from safety and procurement to data integrity and stakeholder engagement, we build trust, strengthen resilience, and position our business for sustainable growth in the rapidly evolving clean-transport sector.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an EV-charging network that reflects and serves the full diversity of the communities and organisations we support. Our business practices prioritise equitable access, inclusive design, and fair opportunity. 100% of our charging bays will provide disability access.
We actively foster a culture where every employee, customer, and stakeholder is respected, heard, and empowered to contribute. By embedding DE&I principles into our operations and decision-making, we deliver charging solutions that strengthen our clients’ ESG performance, support diverse fleet workforces, and help create a more inclusive transition to low-carbon transport.
As part of this wider goal, we will seek to ensure a minimum 99% network availability (charger up-time) in line with industry best practice.
Reliable, renewable-powered charging.
100%
of charging bays with disability access
99%
uptime reliability
Press
Press and media.
Onward announcements and coverage are listed here as they appear.
Three new electric vans, and what they need from a charging hub
Volkswagen, Ford and Kia showed larger electric vans in September 2026. The vans are longer, carry bigger batteries and charge faster.
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Electric cars are now up to nine times cheaper per mile to run
A Carbon Brief analysis puts an electric car at 2.3p a mile on an off-peak tariff, against about 21p for diesel and 20p for petrol.
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UK drivers can now choose from 171 fully electric car models
The number of battery electric car models on sale in the UK doubled in three years. A new model arrived about every two weeks.
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Business leaders ask the government to keep the ZEV mandate
The government is consulting on a lower 2030 target for zero emission car sales. Leaders from the electric vehicle and charging sectors want it kept.
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Most used EV batteries keep about 90% of their capacity after 150,000 km
A study of more than 500,000 battery tests found a median battery health of 87% to 94% after 150,000 km, across 20 popular electric car models.
A new UK Charge Point Operator.
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Onward announcements are listed on the press page.
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The Onward portal.
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Contact
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Media enquiries: Rupert Sheldon
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Privacy
This notice explains what personal data Onward collects through this website, why we use it, how long we keep it and what rights you have. Last updated: 17 October 2026.
Who we are
This website is run by Onward Ultra-Rapid Charging Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 17215326. Its registered office is 33 Cavendish Square, 14th Floor, London W1G 0PW.
Onward Ultra-Rapid Charging Limited is the controller of the personal data that this notice describes. For any question about your data, write to pdonnelly@onwardev.co.uk.
What we collect
- Only if you choose Accept on the cookie bar: a record of each page you view. It holds the page's address, the site you came from, the campaign source named in the link you followed, a broad device type and how long the page was in view. With the first page you view on a day, it also holds one word, new or returning: whether your browser was counted here on an earlier day.
- With each page view, a visitor code. We make it from your IP address and your browser's details, mixed with a random value that changes every day, by a one-way calculation. We do not store the IP address with the page view.
- To stop abuse, we count requests against a one-way code made from your IP address. A record of a technical error can include the IP address of the request that failed.
- If you contact us by email or by phone: your name, your contact details and what you tell us.
Cookies and similar storage
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How we use it
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- To answer you. We use your contact details and your message to reply to an enquiry. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in answering the people who contact us.
- To keep the website secure. We count requests to stop abuse. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in protecting the website.
Who we share it with
We share personal data only with the companies that provide our hosting and our email, and only as far as each one needs to provide that service. We disclose personal data to an authority where the law requires it.
When you open a press article that includes content from YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn or X, your browser fetches that content from the service directly. The privacy notice of that service applies to what it does.
How long we keep it
- Single page views are deleted after 35 days. The daily totals identify nobody, and we keep them.
- Counts of requests are deleted after a day.
- We keep an enquiry for as long as we need to answer it and to deal with what follows from it.
- We keep each nightly backup for 14 nights. Data that we delete can therefore stay in a backup for up to 14 more days.
Where it is stored
We store this data on a server in the United Kingdom. YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn and X are run by companies in the United States. If you open a press article with their content, your browser connects to them directly.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, ask us to limit how we use it, object to our use of it, and ask for it in a portable format. You can withdraw your consent to page view counting at any time with the Cookie settings button at the foot of every page.
To use a right, write to pdonnelly@onwardev.co.uk. A request is free, and we answer within one month.
Page view records hold no name and no stored IP address, so in most cases we cannot find the records of one visitor.
Contact and complaints
For a question or a complaint about how we use your data, write to pdonnelly@onwardev.co.uk.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, telephone 0303 123 1113.
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