Motorway services operator Moto has opened a new EV ‘super hub’ under its Moto Charge brand at its Tamworth site on the M42, offering 24 charging bays for cars and eight spots for electric trucks.
The facility forms part of the ‘Electric Freightway’, a programme headed up by Gridserve and part-funded by government to install chargers for electric trucks, which are set to be the only type available from new from 2040, when sales of new diesel trucks are to be banned.
The Tamworth project is also part of a £500m upgrade drive from Moto, announced after it secured a 75-year government lease extension for 10 of its sites.
The improvement programme will see Moto’s standard EV bays quadruple in number, while 15 HGV charging hubs will be built across its estate, with the first of these going live in Exeter earlier in the year.
Moto concedes, however, that while its new Tamworth site is a step in the right direction, it “acknowledges that the wider industry transition is an ongoing challenge that is far from solved”. Just 81 of the 9,390 trucks (0.9%) registered in the first quarter of 2026 were electric, despite the availability of government grants of up to £80,000.
Ken McMeikan, Moto’s chief executive, describes the opening of his firm’s Tamworh hub as “a landmark moment not just for Moto, but for the UK’s entire logistics sector”
He says the facility helps address “the infrastructure gap that has held back commercial fleet decarbonisation”, and that Moto’s overarching goal is “to provide a scalable blueprint that proves this is possible and encourages the wider industry and public sector collaboration needed to build a truly national network”.
