The Gigahub is designed to help serve the 7 million visitors that come to the NEC campus annually, along with other road users that make up the area’s average yearly traffic count of 60 million.

It includes ultra-fast 16x 300KW DC chargers that are capable of charging 30 EVs simultaneously and a further 150 points for 7KW charging.

BP Pulse, the EV charging arm of the oil and gas extractor, will be operating the hub. It can be accessed via the main NEC Campus by road, less than 1 mile from Junction 6 on the M42.

Given the sluggish pace at which EV chargers have been rolling out across the UK, the government is expected to miss its target of having six or more rapid or ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargers at every motorway service area in England by the end of 2023.

There are currently fewer than 43,000 public charge points in the whole of the UK. A study from 2021 found that the installation of chargers needs to increase by five times the current rate...