Paua Tech Limited, "Paua", is an
electric vehicle charging network aggregator based in the UK.
Paua started in April 2022 with a network of 10,000 aggregated EV chargepoints and all electricity provided to customers is
renewable energy
Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...
.
Activities
The aggregation of charge point networks into a single mobile application and EV Charge card is an
electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road vehicle, road and rail vehicles, electric boats and Submersible, submer ...
solution similar to traditional
fuel cards. The company services business customers and provides a white label solution for customers such as cinch, part of the
Constellation Automotive Group
Constellation Automotive Group is a used vehicle marketplace. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1946, as Southern Counties Car Auctions, and was a publicly traded company, BCA Marketplace, when acquired and taken private by TDR Capital in ...
, in the form of cinchCharge.
Paua is the largest roaming network in the UK claiming 43,000 connectors at February 2024. Charging network partners include
IONITY,
GRIDSERVE
Gridserve Sustainable Energy Limited, stylised as GRIDSERVE, is a British company founded in 2017 to develop, own and operate critical infrastructure for sustainable energy production. Gridserve opened the UK's first all-electric car charging fo ...
, Osprey,
Fastned, Applegreen electric,
Instavolt and others. Paua is the first and only company to have integrated the Scottish network,
ChargePlace Scotland.
Paua won Start-up of the Year at the Electric Vehicle Innovation and Excellence awards (EVIES) 2023.
The Electric Vehicle Rally run by Greenfleet used the Paua EV charge card in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to support drivers travelling the length of Great Britain.
Paua has worked on a number of UK Government funded initiatives including a solution to share private electric vehicle charging depots with other drivers.
References
Charging stations
Electric vehicle infrastructure developers
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