Great West Road Service Station Goes All Electric
Garage on westbound carriageway will also have an M&S
The BP Cromwell garage near Oil Mill Lane closed in March
December 29, 2024
Great West Road Service Station Goes All Electric
Garage on westbound carriageway will also have an M&S
A service station on the Great West Road in Hammersmith is being converted into a rapid charge centre for electric vehicles (EV).
The former BP Cromwell garage near Oil Mill Lane on the westbound carriageway was closed in March and engineering specialist NG Bailey are in the process of removing pumps and replacing them with high-power chargers which claim to be able to give a 100-mile top-up in 15 minutes.
The new facility is scheduled to be fully open in January and will be one of BP’s first electric-only fuel locations in the capital – part of an overall £1billion investment in new EV charging hubs.
The station includes 300KW DC chargers and 7KW chargers, covering the requirements of different cars and will also incorporate a Marks & Spencer shop.
Drone image of the BP Cromwell westbound garage near Oil Mill Lane, W6. Picture: H&F Council
The London-bound BP service station across the road near the junction with Beavor Lane, with its Londis store and 24-hour off licence, will retain petrol and diesel pumps as does the BP service station a mile up the road at the Talgarth Road flyover, which has been revamped with 10 new fast-charge points, while keeping traditional pumps.
The firm has a target of rolling out 100,000 electric vehicle charging points globally by 2030.
BP is making 90 per cent of its new charging points either rapid or ultra-fast.
Richard Bartlett, head of BP Pulse, said, "It's the difference between adding hundreds of miles of range in minutes, and having to leave your car overnight on a slow charger. EV is ultimately a scale game, rolling out high-power charging sites with dozens of chargers per site."
An aerial view of the A4 and the River Thames. Picture: H&F Council
Hammersmith & Fulham is the borough with the densest network of car-charging points in the UK. The number of electric or hybrid cars in H&F has soared from under 350 in 2017 to 6,500 last year, with the electric charge points rising from 113 to 2,800 in the same time.
The first all-electric charge hub in the borough was in Fulham Road in 2022, when a former Shell petrol station was converted to deliver nine ultra-rapid 175KW charge points – a world first.
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