EV destination hubs
Charge. Check. Ready.
AiR turns an EV charging stop into a complete vehicle-readiness stop: charging the battery while intelligently checking and correcting all four tyres.
Operators in the channel
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One proposition, six networks
Immediate and secondary
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IONITY, then Fastned
Pilot locations proposed
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Three to five sites
Metrics measured
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Twelve week window
Why now
The market just created the environment AiR needs
The shift is not more chargers. It is that ultra-rapid networks are now building destinations where motorists deliberately stop for ten to thirty minutes. The vehicle is stationary, the driver is present and awake to the car, and a four-channel check, correction and verified readiness record fits comfortably inside a single charge.
IONITY
19 August 2026First Greenwich Shopping Park ultra-rapid hub opens
Twelve bays at up to 400 kW, described by IONITY as the first in a pipeline of London charging hubs.
A deliberate move beyond a motorway-oriented network into high-footfall retail destinations. Retail destinations are dwell environments, and dwell is what AiR needs.
Fastned
20 August 2026First Liverpool hub opens at Brunswick Business Park
Eight 400 kW chargers close to Liverpool city centre and major commercial areas, taking the UK estate to forty ultra-rapid hubs.
Forty sites is large enough for a meaningful pilot and small enough that one successful relationship can influence a significant proportion of the UK network.
The EV case
On an electric car, pressure is a range product
This is not a forecourt convenience argument moved sideways. Correcting all four tyres at a charger returns usable range on the leg the driver has just paid to charge for, and the safety benefit comes free with it.
Pressure is a range product
Under-inflation raises rolling resistance, and rolling resistance is a larger share of total energy demand on an EV than on an equivalent combustion car. For a charging operator, correcting all four tyres is not a forecourt convenience, it is added usable range on the leg the driver has just paid to charge for.
Heavier cars, faster degradation
EV kerb weights load tyres harder and wear them faster, so pressure drifts matter sooner and cost the owner more. A ninety-second automated correction at the charger is the cheapest intervention point in the entire ownership cycle.
Dwell that is otherwise dead
Charging dwell is currently spent on coffee or a phone. AiR converts part of it into a measurable safety and efficiency outcome without extending the stop by a single minute.
A record the network owns
Every check produces a timestamped verified readiness record. That gives the operator a customer-value story, a data asset and a safety position no competing network currently holds.
Another route to first deployment
- -AiR does not have to wait for MFG, EG On The Move or AIR-serv to validate the model.
- -A charging-network deployment proves utilisation, correction rates and unit economics on its own evidence.
- -Charging operators already fund, install and manage third-party equipment on host sites, so the commercial mechanism exists.
- -Winning here reduces dependence on securing a traditional forecourt operator first, and strengthens the forecourt conversation when it happens.
How not to pitch it
Put an air machine at your chargers.
Turn your charging stop into a complete vehicle-readiness stop, and add usable range to the leg the driver just paid for.
Tyre pressure is a safety issue.
Tyre pressure is an efficiency and range issue on an EV, and safety comes free with it.
We need a site.
We fund and install the hardware. You provide the footprint and we share the outcome and the data.
Here is a deck about AiR.
Here is a seven-metric pilot scorecard across three to five of your sites, and the twelve-week window it closes in.
Pilot design
One scorecard, taken to every operator unchanged
Three to five locations, one AiR MAX STATION per site, twelve weeks of live operation after commissioning. AiR funds and installs the hardware. The host provides the bay footprint, power and permission. No capital outlay for the operator.
| Metric | What it proves | How it is captured |
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| Tyre-check utilisation | Whether charging dwell converts to checks at a rate that supports a national rollout. | Session counter on the unit, per site, per hour of day. |
| Vehicles found under or over pressure | The scale of the safety and efficiency problem inside the operator's own customer base. | Measured entry pressure on all four channels against the OEM placard value. |
| Average correction required | How far from correct the estate actually runs, in PSI per tyre. | Delta between entry and exit pressure per corner. |
| Repeat usage | Whether the check becomes habitual for regular chargers, which is what makes it a retention feature. | Anonymised registration hash, repeat visits inside the pilot window. |
| Driver dwell time | That the check sits inside the charge and never extends the stop. | Session duration against charge session duration on the same visit. |
| Estimated efficiency improvement | Range and energy benefit attributable to correction, which is the operator's headline number. | Correction magnitude applied to published rolling-resistance sensitivity, reported as a range not a point value. |
| Customer satisfaction | Whether the service raises perceived value of the hub itself. | Two-question prompt on the unit at end of session, plus operator app rating if available. |
Operators
Six networks, one proposition, sent in the same week
IONITY moves onto the immediate list, Fastned sits directly behind it, and the remaining four go out in parallel. Every named route is a published corporate channel - confirm the current role holder before you write.
IONITY UK
European high-power network, now opening London destination hubs
Position
Backed by a consortium of vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure capital, historically motorway-oriented, now moving into high-footfall retail destinations.
Why it fits
The Greenwich Shopping Park format is a retail destination with a stated pipeline behind it. Getting AiR into the format specification now is far easier than retrofitting it across a built estate later.
The ask
A scoping call with UK commercial and network development, then three to five sites in the London pipeline for a funded readiness pilot.
Fastned UK
Forty UK ultra-rapid hubs and growing
Position
Listed European operator building canopy-covered destination hubs with a strong brand and customer-experience focus.
Why it fits
Forty sites is a real estate but a legible one. One relationship can influence a meaningful share of the UK network, and the brand already sells the quality of the stop rather than just the kilowatts.
The ask
A pilot at two or three UK hubs, measured on the same seven-metric scorecard, with a route to estate-wide rollout on evidence.
GRIDSERVE
Electric Forecourts and motorway high-power charging
Position
Motorway and trunk-road infrastructure operator with a forecourt format built around services under a canopy.
Why it fits
The Electric Forecourt format already sells services during dwell, and motorway approaches are where under-inflation carries the highest safety consequence.
The ask
One Electric Forecourt as the first proof site, with the format team in the room.
InstaVolt
4,000+ chargers across 950+ locations
Position
The clearest UK example of the sites-first, infrastructure-capital-second blueprint AiR is copying.
Why it fits
Scale and site diversity mean a pilot can test retail park, roadside and destination formats simultaneously rather than sequentially.
The ask
A three-format pilot cluster, one site per format, on a standard host agreement.
Be.EV
2,500+ charging bays, landlord and site-partner model
Position
Funds, installs and manages infrastructure on behalf of landlords and site partners.
Why it fits
Their entire model is placing funded equipment on a partner's land, which is the exact structure AiR needs for hardware placement.
The ask
A co-location cluster trial across a small group of Be.EV sites.
Osprey Charging
High-power hubs with a strong asset-debt financing template
Position
Equity funds the company, asset debt funds the deployed units. The template AiR wants for its own hardware.
Why it fits
Useful twice over: hub sites for the pilot, and the structural conversation about financing deployed hardware off the equity line.
The ask
Two hub sites for the pilot, plus a separate structural conversation on hardware asset finance.
Sequence
Twenty-one weeks from proposition to a decision
This channel runs in parallel with the forecourt and roadside programmes, not behind them.
Week 1 - one proposition, six operators
IONITY, Fastned, GRIDSERVE, InstaVolt, Be.EV, OspreyThe same Charge. Check. Ready. proposition and the same pilot scorecard go to all six at once. No bespoke decks. Whoever moves fastest becomes the reference site.
Weeks 2 to 4 - scoping calls
Commercial and network developmentScope the bay footprint, power draw, host agreement and data-sharing position. Confirm the format owner is in the room, because format decisions are made earlier than site decisions.
Weeks 5 to 8 - site selection and permissions
Three to five locationsMixed formats where possible: retail destination, city commercial and motorway approach, so the evidence generalises across the estate.
Weeks 9 to 20 - live pilot
Twelve weeks of measurementRun the seven-metric scorecard with weekly reporting to the operator. No renegotiation mid-pilot; the metrics decide.
Week 21 - evidence to estate
Rollout or a clean noUtilisation, correction rates and efficiency benefit either support an estate rollout or they do not. Either answer arrives inside six months and is portable to every other operator and to the forecourt conversation.
Partner dashboards
Three live opportunity dashboards inside this channel
Each one is credential-gated for that partner's team, carries its own dated intelligence with sources, and holds the pilot design and the ready-to-send outreach.
Pair this with
IONITY and Fastned are now live targets in the deployment engine with full call briefs, generated emails and tracked next actions. The forecourt services and compliance channel runs in parallel.
Standing rule for this channel
Never open with hardware. Open with the stop. The operator is selling a ten to thirty minute pause in a journey, and AiR is the only service that makes the car measurably better while the pause happens.
Charge. Check. Ready.
The battery charges. All four tyres are corrected. The car leaves verified.