Engie has secured a contract with Whitbread to install electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints at Premier Inn hotels.
The company is to install 600 chargepoints across 300 hotels over the next three years, with these to form part of Engie’s GeniePoint network.
Sam Hockman, divisional CEO of futures at Engie UK & Ireland, said the contract highlights the “key role the hospitality sector can play to support . the uptake of EVs” as well as the wider commitment to becoming net zero by 2050.
Guests of the Premier Inn hotels will be able to use the 50kW+ chargers, as well as members of the public using the GeniePoint network.