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Last year , the partnership saw the release of two pilot Mobis at a BP outlet in Hammersmith , London for a hugely successful three-month trial that concluded in October . “ We checked off all of our success metrics ,” Sosinov says . “ Everything worked out great and now we ’ re planning for future developments across all of Europe . The key thing that we wanted to show was that they can provide fast charging at a gas station without new infrastructure , and we did that . That was a big one .”
Chad Bown , Venture Principal at BP Ventures and Board Member at Free- Wire , shares this positivity . “ FreeWire units are very mobile . If you remove the wheels , you can pick the units up with a machine and move them about very quickly so that , as demand changes at certain sites , we can move very quickly to provide an offer nearby ,” he says . “ FreeWire units save you the time of getting regulations to dig up ground , and the costs of actually installing the copper . We ’ ve shown that EV charging at gas
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