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Sign Up to Co Charger And Help Everyone #GoElectric

By 2030, all new vehicle sales will be electric, which is great if you’ve got a driveway to install a charger. However, for the 40% of households who live in flats, terraces, rent, or don’t have a driveway, it’s harder. There are 15 million motorists needing a good way to charge.

There’s a simple solution. Community Charging helps ‘Hosts’ (people with EV chargers) rent out their chargers to ‘Chargees’ (motorists who can’t charge at home). Co Charger is the only dedicated Community Charging platform, and the app handles all the ‘matchmaking’, booking and payment.

At end June 2022, there’s just 33,000 public charge points across the UK, but over 400,000 home chargers. Sharing even a fraction of these could transform EV charging availability for everyone. After all, every charge removed from the public network is a charger freer for everyone to use!

If you’ve got a Home Charge Point (Hosts)

If you’ve got a home charge point, why not become a Co Charger Host? Hosts can:

Improve their local neighbourhood – helping neighbours shift to EVs creates a cleaner, greener environment for everyone.

Make money or at least recoup some of their costs. Hosts can rent out their charger whenever it’s free. If you’re travelling an average 10-12,000 miles pa, most chargers only need to be used once or twice a week, leaving lots of time for others to charge.

Feel good – sharing your love of EVs is a great way to feel good. Co Charger Hosts can even help people get electric vehicles who would otherwise not have done so.

EV Drivers without a Charge Point

The key benefit of Co Charger, of course, is for EV drivers without a charger. For them, it offers the convenience of potentially booking evening or overnight charging, without any hassle, close to home.

Why Use Co Charger as a Chargee?

Here’s just a few of the benefits for Chargees:

Bookable – with Co Charger you can book regular charging at a nearby location, taking all the uncertainty out of charging.

Convenience – Chargees can drop off their cars and walk home, rather than hanging around while their battery fills, picking it up fully charged a few hours later - just like a mobile phone.

Reliability – most Chargees appreciate the reliability of Co Charger charging. EV owners usually find out quickly if their charger stops working and they either fix it or let their chargees know.

Want to know more?

Co Charger‘s already helping thousands of EV owners share their home chargers with neighbours, so why not check out this video of Bradley and Emma which shows just how easy Co Charging is.

Written by Joel Teague CEO of Co-Charger

07/09/22