Where mobility is heading
This is our Zengcheng retail site. It’s a small station in southern China. If you look at the clock in the picture, this shot was taken just after midnight. In a company of almost 19,000 retail sites, I can see why you’d ask why this one caught my eye.
What surprised me was that every electric vehicle charger is in use. Every single one. This isn’t rush hour or the start of a big holiday. This is a Tuesday night!
And it isn’t just China. I read in the FT recently that electric cars sales in the UK doubled year-on-year in August - even in the midst of the uncertainty associated with the pandemic.
We are confident this is where mobility is heading and we believe we can help. In fact, when we drew up our new strategy, we made electrification, including EV charging facilities, a central part. The need for fast, convenient and reliable infrastructure will be key.
Last week I talked to the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and we agreed on a new partnership in London to make it easier – and more affordable – for their partner-drivers to charge EVs. Like us, Uber is going after a big target of their own – to become a net zero emissions mobility platform by 2040.
As we adapt to become a more customer-centric company, it’s important we increasingly give people what they need, and where they need it.
So we’re targeting more than 70,000 EV charging points by the end of the decade – up from 7,500 today. Setting up in places like the UK with bp Chargemaster, where we have the country’s largest EV charging network. In Germany through our Aral brand, where we're rolling out nationwide after a successful pilot. And in China partnering with Didi – who total 10 billion rides per year. That number still makes my head swell!
We won’t be able to do it alone – we’ll need to work together to help lay down the infrastructure. But as Zengcheng demonstrates, we will need it.
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Advisor (Technical) at Centre for High Technology
4 年EVs are a good intermediate Solution for reducing CO2 emission etc. but the devil is the vehicle itself, be it EV or the traditional fossil fuel-based ones. Can we not make efforts to reduce the number of personnel vehicles, I suppose it takes enormous energy to build a car, and that energy is not without CO2 emission. A sustainable long terms solution lies elsewhere, maybe in improving our mass transport system, is BP doing something in this direction or does it plan to do in the near future
Managing Director at FortyFive Ropes
4 年7500 to 70000 EV charge points, $1.1 Billion investment in 2 US wind farms, 40% reduction in O&G by 2030, 23% in upstream processes by 2025 and $5 Billion investing goals by 2030. Very impressive goals to achieve and I hope you succeed in all of them, as we all need to make big changes to protect our environment. And I've said it before and I'll say it again "the biggest offenders to climate change can make the biggest difference".
at Habibi Enterprises International
4 年Hi Bernard your strategy is spot on for developed markets such as Europe and America... what about developing markets such as South Africa and India.. your strategy appears to be focused on electricity generation as the next wave for BP to ride. Have you considered any other alternate energy sources such as for example hydrogen in your strategic energy mix.