Gridserve opens contactless electric vehicle forecourt at Gatwick Airport

Sustainable energy provider Gridserve has opened an electric vehicle charging station at London’s Gatwick Airport that combines 30 vehicle charging bays with a convenience store that uses Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and a Costa Coffee outlet that allows drivers to pre-order and pay for a coffee that can then be delivered to their charging bay.

The London Gatwick Electric Forecourt is the first EV charging facility of its kind at an international airport 21. The facility is equipped with 22 high power chargers with up to 350kW of power - some of the fastest chargers publicly available today, capable of adding 100 miles of range in only five minutes 1. The chargers are powered by net zero carbon energy.

To make it as easy as possible for customers to charge their EVs, all Gridserve locations feature both CCS and CHAdeMO connectors, accept contactless payment and provide real-time status updates to a myriad of popular EV charging maps.

The convenience store at the London Gatwick Electric Forecourt is a Little Fresh convenience store, Simply Fresh’s small-store format. This latest Electric Forecourt is the first time a Little Fresh convenience store has implemented Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, speeding up the customer journey and giving guests more time to recharge as their vehicles do the same.