Consumers
Drivers charging in public.
Ultra-rapid EV charging hubs in convenient locations at highly competitive prices.
Smarter EV charging solutions for tomorrow
Mission
Everything begins with the site. We know a good site when we see it.
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 of 2030 80% of all new car sales to be zero emission
- End of 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
We know a good site when we see it.
Onward in numbers
100+years of combined real estate experience
99%minimum network uptime reliability
20+year leases sought
Executives & Co-founders
Location, location, location…
Our customers
Who we build for.
Two kinds of driver share the same hub: the public, and the commercial fleets whose vans are out all day.
Commercial fleets
Fleet operators.
Hubs located for commercial fleets, with large ‘fit for purpose’ spaces enabling a relaxing experience when it is needed most.
What
One network, two kinds of driver.
Ultra-rapid charging hubs, built for consumers and fleet.
The Onward hub
12–24ultra-rapid chargers per hub
+75%larger charging bays
100%of bays with disability access
The Onward hub
Built for cars and vans.
Two kinds of customer, one hub. Prime sites, ultra-rapid chargers only with bays designed for all users.
Consumers
Prime urban and ultra-urban sites.
Hubs where drivers already stop.
Consumers
Ultra-rapid chargers only.
Nothing slower, on any site.
Consumers
Competitive pricing.
Fleet utilisation at scale keeps prices down.
Commercial fleets
Placed for LCV traffic.
On the routes vans already run.
Commercial fleets
Utilisation agreements.
Guaranteed charging when it is needed most.
Commercial fleets
75% larger charging bays.
Safe access for every van.
75% larger bays. Vans fit.
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 Where to build.
- 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 How busy it will be.
- Measures utilisation across the market.
- Multiple filters for optimum analysis.
- Informs drivers & patterns of demand.
CAT Commercial Analysis Tool What the fleet customer needs.
- 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 selection.
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 design 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.
Articles tagged Policy. Show all
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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.
A new UK Charge Point Operator.
Press
This article is not available.
Onward announcements are listed on the press page.
Portal
The Onward portal.
Sign-in for investors and partners.
Access is by invitation.
Portal accounts are issued by the team. Contact them if you do not have one.
Signed in
Your portal is open in this browser.
Continue to the portalMeasured across the market.
Contact
A person to call.
Investors, landowners, agents and fleet operators: contact the team directly.
Media enquiries: Peter Donnelly.
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Privacy
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW. This page is a draft. It sets out what the Onward website and portal do with personal data today, as notes for a lawyer to turn into the privacy notice. It makes no promise yet.
Who we are
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
Onward is a UK Charge Point Operator. This website and the Onward portal are run for Onward.
The company's legal name, company number, registered address and data protection registration are to be added after legal review.
What we collect
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
From visitors to the website:
- The visitor's answer to the cookie bar, Accept or Decline. It stays in the visitor's own browser.
- Only when the visitor accepts: a record of each page view. It holds the page's address, the site the visitor came from, the campaign source named in the link, a coarse device type and how long the page was in view.
- With each page view, a visitor code: a one-way hash of the visitor's IP address and browser details, mixed with a value that changes every day. The IP address and the browser details themselves are not stored.
- Nothing is counted for a browser that sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, whatever the cookie bar says.
From portal users, who join only with an access code from the Onward team:
- Email address, name and account type.
- The password, stored only as a scrypt hash.
- For two-step sign-in, the authenticator secret, stored encrypted, and the recovery codes, stored as hashes.
- For each signed-in session, the IP address and the browser's user agent.
- For a password reset, the IP address the request came from.
- An activity log of sign-ins, account changes and content changes, with the IP address of each.
- The posts, images and files portal users upload, and the emails the portal sends them: welcome emails, invitations, notices and password reset codes.
Cookies and similar storage
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- The public website sets no cookies, before or after the cookie bar is answered.
- The cookie bar keeps the visitor's answer in the browser's local storage, under the name onward-cookie-choice. The page view record above runs only when that answer is "accepted".
- The accessibility settings keep the visitor's choices (less motion, text size, contrast, underlined links, text spacing) in the browser's local storage, under the name onward-a11y, and for a moment in its session storage, under onward-a11y-return, while a page reloads to apply one. Neither is sent anywhere.
- Signing in to the portal sets two cookies. The session cookie, __Host-onward_sid, keeps the user signed in for up to 14 days; the portal cannot work without it. The second, __Host-onward_in, holds only the value 1 and tells the sign-in page that a session may exist.
- A press article can embed a video or a post from YouTube (through youtube-nocookie.com), Vimeo, LinkedIn or X. The embed loads from that service when a reader opens the article, whatever the cookie bar says.
- The cookie bar says the site uses cookies for analytics and performance. The analytics sets no cookie, so the bar's words need the same review.
How we use it
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
- Page views show the Onward team, in the portal, how many people read each page and where they came from. They are added up into daily totals per page.
- Portal account data signs users in and keeps accounts safe: limits on repeated attempts, a lock after too many wrong codes, and the activity log. The email address also receives the portal's own emails.
- When an Anthropic API key is set, a portal user can ask for suggested alt text for an image or suggested wording for a post.
The lawful basis for each use is to be set after legal review.
Who we share it with
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
- Vercel, which hosts the website and runs its server.
- The database service that stores the data below. The provider is set outside the code.
- Anthropic, only when an Anthropic API key is set and a portal user asks for a suggestion. The request sends that image, as a 960 pixel copy, or that post's text.
- An email service, when the portal sends email over SMTP. The recipient's address and the message go to the provider named in the server's settings.
- YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn and X, for an article that embeds one of their videos or posts.
The portal also reads Onward's own search figures from Google Search Console. That sends no visitor data. The site loads no advertising code and no third-party analytics.
How long we keep it
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- The cookie bar answer stays in the visitor's browser until the visitor clears it.
- The daily value behind the visitor code is deleted after 2 days. After that, nobody can link a stored visitor code to an IP address.
- Single page views are deleted after 35 days, once they are in the daily totals.
- The daily totals per page hold no visitor code. No end date is set for them.
- A portal session is deleted when it expires, about 14 days after sign-in.
- A password reset code is deleted once it is used or expires.
- Counts of failed sign-ins are deleted after a day, unless they still hold an account locked.
- No end date is set for portal accounts, the activity log or sent emails. An admin can turn an account off; nothing in the code deletes one.
Where it is stored
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
- The website and its server run on Vercel. The region is to be confirmed.
- Page views, portal accounts, the activity log, and every uploaded image and file are stored in one PostgreSQL database. Its provider and region are to be confirmed.
- The cookie bar answer stays in the visitor's own browser.
Whether any of this leaves the UK, and on what terms, is to be set after legal review.
Your rights
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
The rights that apply, and how to use them, are to be written after legal review.
- The portal has no way for a user to download or delete their own account. An admin can turn an account off.
- A visitor can take back analytics consent by clearing the site's storage in the browser; the cookie bar then asks again. The site has no link to change the answer.
Contact and complaints
PLACEHOLDER — FOR LEGAL REVIEW
The contact for privacy questions, and the route for a complaint, are to be added after legal review.
The site's enquiries address today is pdonnelly@onwardev.co.uk.
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