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The UK’s Public EV Charging Network Reached 118,321 Chargers by February 2026 and Most Commercial Sites Are Still Relying on Detection Systems That Were Never Designed for This Environment
The UK's public charging network has grown at its fastest rate to date, with rapid and ultra-rapid chargers expanding 41% in 2025 alone. DC fast chargers operating at 350kW and above with currents exceeding 500A are now the backbone of the public charging...
London Has the Highest Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Rate of Any City in the UK and Commercial Car Parks Are at the Centre of the Risk
The London Fire Brigade attended 521 lithium-ion battery fire incidents in 2025 the highest total of any fire service in the UK, representing nearly a third of all lithium-ion battery fires recorded nationally that year. The London Assembly's March 2026 data...
Managing Fire Risks in Large-Scale EV Charging Hubs
The UK's EV charging hub market is expanding at a rate that reflects the scale of the net zero commitment rather than the pace of the conventional commercial property market. Operators including Gridserve, Pod Point, BP Pulse, and Osprey are building high-throughput...
How Do EV Fire Risks Affect Commercial Insurance Requirements?
UK fire services attended the equivalent of 4.8 lithium-ion battery fires every day in 2025 roughly one every five hours a 147% rise in just three years. Almost a quarter of those fires occurred in commercial premises. Three fire risks are quietly...
Questions to Ask Before Installing EV Fire Suppression Systems
Fire and rescue services in England attended 175,918 fires in the year ending December 2025. Only 58% of the 51,020 commercial fire safety audits carried out in England in the year to March 2025 were recorded as satisfactory the lowest proportion since 2011. These...
How Commercial Sites Can Reduce Thermal Runaway Risks
Thermal Runaway Is Not a Future Risk. It Is Happening Now on UK Commercial Sites and Most Are Not Adequately Protected. In January 2025, a massive thermal runaway event at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California forced the evacuation of 1,500 residents....
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