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Drive thru, charge up! New Osprey chargers 🤝 Starbucks now live just off the M621 at the Stourton Interchange, Leeds. 🔋 4x ultra-rapid chargers deliver the speed and convenience of ultra-rapid charging in a compact space on a new development. 🗺️ Take a look here: https://lnkd.in/e9__zfNT This is the fourth Osprey location delivered in partnership wtih Starbucks UK, joining: 🥤 Starbucks, St John's Retail Park, Bedford ⚙️ Starbucks, Watling St, Bletchley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Starbucks, Intown Road, Aberdeen These high-quality, roadside QSR destinations are perfect for a pit stop from the nearby motorway or A-road, as well as serving regional commercial fleet vehicles and local residents and taxis without home charging. Delivered by the experienced team at Osprey, this scheme was acquired by Jake Goldby, developed by Lydia Macdonell and advised by Jess Hartley. Thanks to Harry Pulford and Andy Phillips for their support in getting this site live! Do you have land in a great location for ultra-rapid charging? Our Acquisitions team is always on the lookout for new landlord partners and premium freehold or leasehold sites across Great Britain, offering market-leading introduction fees. Get in touch with Jake Goldby, Alex Lomas, Matt Aubrey or Steve Forster. Osprey is one of the largest public rapid EV charging networks in the UK. A team of 70 passionate people based in London and in the field, together we operate over 1,500 rapid and ultra-rapid charging bays with our landlord partners and on our own land. Osprey was 10th in The Times Tech 100 2026 and is Great Place To Work Certified™.

💅 Last night at the Women in Green Business Awards 2026 we celebrated the brilliant women driving environmental action in the UK, including our Head of Brand & External Affairs Dora Clarke who was shortlisted for Transport Professional of the Year, for her leadership within Osprey and beyond. Congratulations to Aline Gomes of Network Rail who won the award, and Melanie Lane of Pod, who was Highly Commended. The range of businesses on the night told a powerful story of how women are making a difference across sectors from shipping to payments, infrastructure to STEM career coaching, and at all levels of business. The EV sector was well-represented, with Gill Groves (Nowell), Rich Smith, Nadia Misconi and Joanna Edwards CA great company on our joint table. Particular congratulations to Nadia who won Inspiring Returner of the Year, an important category that acknowledges the feat of returning to work after a period away. Recognition at the Women in Business Awards builds on our 2025 successes, when Osprey Charging Network won Business Green's Fast Track Business of the Year and Marketing Campaign of the Year. Hosted by Harriet Kemsley and with a rousing speech from Politician of the Year Katie White OBE MP, it was an absolute privilege to be there with other women and businesses playing leading roles the UK's significant and growing green economy. Thank you to BusinessGreen for a fantastic night of vintage outfits and vegan food. Congratulations to all the winners and fellow finalists! Hosted by Gill® Zapmap The 49 Collective

PHEV or Phiction? The Plug-In Hybrid myths consumers (and Government) are being mis-sold. 🤥 Phiction: PHEVs produce 1/7th the emissions of a conventional combustion car. ✅ Fact: PHEVs’ real-world emissions average 145g of CO2/km, only 14% less than an average combustion car at 169g/km. 🤥 Phiction: PHEVs can charge on the public network like an EV. ✅ Fact: None of the top 20 PHEV models sold here in 2026 can ultra-rapid charge, and only a handful rapid. 🤥 Phiction: PHEVs are cheaper to run than combustion cars. ✅ Fact: PHEV drivers rarely re-charge. Relying on petrol or diesel means they don’t get the savings of electricity. Add higher maintenance and higher purchase price and the “savings” disappear. These enduring myths sell inferior vehicles to consumers but they also inform the ZEV Mandate's CO2 conversion flexibility, which allows vehicle manufacturers to sell PHEVs to generate (generous) CO2 credits. The credits are then converted into "ZEVs sold" to make up their shortfall in actual ZEV sales. This flexibility is supposed to end in 2030, to stop a short-term compliance support mechanism becoming a long-term compliance strategy. Extending this flexibility, as is proposed, would make highly polluting PHEVs a long-term substitute for genuine ZEV sales, encouraging PHEV production, marketing and sales to consumers at the expense of ZEVs. And it’s not even protecting UK manufacturing. The top five PHEV models sold in 2026 are all from Chinese manufacturers, who now account for over half of UK PHEV sales. Stricter EU rules on PHEVs encourage them to sell here. Rather than helping UK-based manufacturers meet the Mandate targets whilst they transition to electric, it’s handing the advantage to overseas competitors. The upcoming ZEV Mandate review must not extend PHEV flexibilities past 2030. ZEV targets should be met with real ZEVs sold: to give the industry clarity, to give consumers the better, cheaper vehicle, and to drive genuine emissions reductions. Caroline Low CBE Rosalind Marshall Tom Layfield T&E Tim Dexter ChargeUK Shane Brennan Jarrod Birch Ian McKee Electric Vehicles UK Tanya Sinclair Ben Kilbey Sources: Transport & Environment analysis of EEA data – reporting year 2024 ZEV Mandate Review Consultation, Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom

📍 We’re live at McDonald's, Sandbrook Park, Rochdale! Another new high-powered Osprey Charging Hub has landed, in this leafy spot off the Rochdale bypass and the M62. 🔋 12x ultra-rapid EV chargers each delivering up to 300kW - which adds around 100 miles of range in just 15-20 minutes. This large hub follows hot on the heels of Osprey ultra-rapid chargers going live at McDonald's in Harwich, and with another McDonald's to come in Cambridgeshire in partnership with DVS Property Julan Shah FCCA. Do you have en-route or city centre land crying out for ultra-rapid charging? Our Acquisitions team is always on the lookout for new landlord partners and premium freehold or leasehold sites across Great Britain, offering market-leading introduction fees. Get in touch with our team: Jake Goldby, Alex Lomas, Matt Aubrey and Steve Forster. Did you know, Osprey is one of the largest public rapid EV charging networks in the UK. A team of 70 passionate people based in London and in the field, together we operate over 1,500 rapid and ultra-rapid charging bays with our landlord partners and on our own land. Osprey is a Times Tech100 business 2026 and Great Place To Work Certified™.

Today's the day VAT drops to 0% on home electricity for six months - Andy Burnham's first policy announcement. Whilst this widens the cost gap between home EV charging and public EV charging, it's not the main issue... Typically, VAT on home electricity is 5% versus 20% for electricity sold through public charge points (whether standard or rapid/ultra-rapid). This is unequal for the 10 million households unable to recharge a vehicle at home - living in flats, terraced housing and rental properties. But, critically, the inequality is greatly exacerbated by the starkly different underlying electricity cost to which the differing VAT rates are applied. The public charging cost stack, especially for ultra-rapid charging, is much bigger excluding VAT (even before CPO costs of infrastructure, charger maintenance and network overheads are added) - and that's what the 20% is applied to. Why is the electricity cost stack bigger? Drivers might be surprised to learn that up to half of the energy they are paying for is fixed charges, not wholesale energy costs. This is a UK-wide business energy cost problem. Levied as standing and capacity charges, these high fixed amounts are set by DNOs and TOs (and signed off by Ofgem) to fund grid upgrades and long-term grid infrastructure investment, including AI and system automation improvements. Mechanisms for recovering these costs changed in 2021/22, increasing the annual fixed energy charges for a small hub in the Midlands from £87 in 2021 to £33,757 in 2026. THIS is what makes the 20% VAT on public EV charging so painful. High business energy costs were prominent this week in Burnham's Conference speech announcing Great British Grid in a bid to bring down costs by investing public capital in electricity network infrastructure. His focus on reforming a broken energy market is welcome acknowledgment of the problem, but there is a long way to go. Maurice Hochschild Ian Johnston Harry Bleasdale Shane Brennan ChargeUK Jarrod Birch The Labour Party Energy UK Dhara Vyas FEI

📣 Announcing that we're one of the UK's Best Workplaces in Transportation™ for a second year running! The list is based on employee scores as part of our Great Place To Work UK accreditation. We're incredibly proud to have built a business where: 🧡 82% of our team say Osprey is a Great Place to Work 👯 Camaraderie is strong again - 89% say they love working with their colleagues, 86% feel a real sense of team 👑 People genuinely can be themselves - 90% felt comfortable around their colleagues and said they can rely on one another 🧭 Leadership continues to shine - 91% for fairness, 82% for competence, and 85% for support These results reflect a culture built on accountability, collaboration and shared pride - where people support each other and innovate together as the business grows. Thank you to everyone who works here, for shaping Osprey into the place it is today and determining where we're headed in the future. If you want to join a workplace where people genuinely enjoy working together, check out our current vacancies or sign up to our Talent Hub 👉 search Careers at Osprey Charging. Chloe Grosvenor-Taylor (Assoc. CIPD) Ian Johnston Alice Markey Amber Muat Maurice Hochschild 📸 Osprey's quarterly off-site social, July this year at The Bowls Club LDN The Best Workplaces lists are created using the anonymous feedback from employees working in the industry about their workplace experience. Great Place To Work UK administered their research-backed Trust Index™ employee survey and analysed the responses of UK-based employees.