Congratulations to our 2025 winner!
Shell Recharge, Bao’an Airport, Shenzhen, China
Announcing the Top 3 for 2025
Shell’s Shenzhen EV Hub, featuring 258 charge points, is the ‘Best EV Hub in the World’ for 2025! As Shell’s largest charging site globally, it serves more than 3,300 customers daily. Congratulations to Shell China, Shell Recharge, and the dedicated Shell teams worldwide on this remarkable achievement!
In second place, our congratulations go to Westmorland Gloucester Services, UK—seamlessly incorporating EV charging into this iconic roadside retail destination, where people and the community are at the heart of everything they do.
And in third place, Circle K Järna—Sweden’s largest ultra-fast charging station at 30,000 sqm— providing ultra-fast charging with capacities of 400 kW. This brand-new site, located along the E4 highway approximately 50 km south of Stockholm, stands out as a premier charging destination in the highly developed Nordics.
Celebrating success and innovation
Congratulations to our Top 10, and a heartfelt thank you to all our 2025 entrants!
Throughout the world, there are those who disrupt, innovate, and revolutionise—those who, with incredible drive and innovation, blaze a trail of ground-breaking next-gen experiences for EV drivers everywhere – as a global initiative, the ‘Best EV Hub in the World’ recognises and celebrates your success and innovation!
Our thanks to everyone involved this year—Vontier and Visa, whose sponsorship makes this possible, our global panel of judges, and you, the global industry, for your engagement throughout 2025.
View entry profiles, including site videos
Competition overview: from search to reveal
Our global search for the ‘Best EV Hub in the World’ 2025 commenced in early January.
- This year’s competition featured 18 outstanding entries spanning 14 countries, each presented with a dedicated profile showcasing written insights, photos, and site videos.
- As a global initiative, the ‘Best EV Hub’ competition continues to champion a multi-energy future – in the way that our industry always has – by sharing and celebrating success and innovation.
- In March, our independent global panel of judges undertook the rigorous task of evaluating and scoring each entry.
- Their aggregated scores determined the 2025 Top 10, announced on 8 April, marking the start of the industry-wide online vote.
- Over the past five weeks, the global industry has participated by voting online, selecting their Top 3.
- This dual evaluation process incorporates a diverse range of perspectives to determine the winner, ensuring a robust, independent, and globally representative judging process.
Spirit of the competition
What truly stands out is the camaraderie and connection among the participants. This is especially evident in the mutual appreciation of each other’s achievements through the competition. Our 2024 winner captured the value of this global initiative –
“We said we wanted to inspire our own organisation with the things that we do, that’s exactly what this competition is about, right? – Lars Østbye, Managing Director, Certas Energy Norway AS
Improving customer experience is crucial for the future of mobility and all customers on the move. We appreciate the leadership and acknowledgment of this initiative’s value from all those who’ve entered and everyone involved – THANK YOU!
A global network
As experts in convenience and mobility retail, Insight Research‘s expertise is built on years of engaging with the best in the industry through our global network of friends, partners, and contributors across more than 100 countries on five continents.
We proudly present the ‘Best EV Hub in the World’ together with the support of our sponsors, Vontier and Visa. These global companies are vital in supporting our industry through the mobility transition.