BP Pulse has unveiled its latest dedicated electric vehicle charging hub, on the site of a former car wash on Dundee’s Kingsway bypass.
The 14-bay facility, which opened earlier this month, follows the launch of the oil company’s first all-electric forecourt, on the A4 Great West Road in Hammersmith in February.
The hub does not yet have a convenience store, but BP says it is “in the process of finalising the retailer” and targeting opening in 2026.
The Hammersmith facility, a former conventional BP forecourt, has a Marks & Spencer outlet that includes BP’s own Wildbean Café concept.
The Dundee site, on the Strathmartine roundabout, replaces a car wash that was demolished last year. It has seven 400kW units, each capable of charging two cars, as well as additional parking spaces for 17 vehicles. There appears to be room for a substantial convenience store.
As well as serving as the main artery through the city’s northern suburbs, Kingsway is part of the A90/A92 trunk road that connects Perth and Aberdeen, so is one of Scotland’s busiest routes outside the central belt.
While BP Pulse has a network of charging units on its company-owned forecourts and at standalone sites – such as at the NEC – Dundee and Hammersmith are its only purpose-built roadside all-electric sites. However, BP plans to roll out more sites later this year and next, which will have convenience added or be pure EV hubs.
The company says the Dundee operation is part of its “broader strategy to evolve its mobility and convenience network across the UK meeting customers’ needs wherever they are on the energy transition”, and is the latest hub in its growing network of almost 3,500 rapid and ultra-fast chargepoints
It says that as well as adding EV charging to its existing conventional forecourts, it will “develop new EV charging hubs with enhanced convenience offers that match customer needs”.
