{"id":185528,"date":"2024-03-20T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/shell-to-unload-1000-retail-locations-in-pivot-to-ev-charging"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:24:28","slug":"shell-to-unload-1000-retail-locations-in-pivot-to-ev-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/shell-to-unload-1000-retail-locations-in-pivot-to-ev-charging","title":{"rendered":"Shell to unload 1,000 retail locations in pivot to EV charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shell-to-unload-1000-retail-locations-in-pivot-to-ev-charging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of its energy transition strategy, energy giant Shell plans to shed some of its retail locations, including gasoline stations, to focus more on EV charging sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are upgrading our retail network, with expanded <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec: donut-hole;cpos:0;\">electric vehicle<\/a> charging and convenience offers, in response to changing customer needs,\u201d Shell said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shell.com\/sustainability\/our-climate-target\/shell-energy-transition-strategy\/ets-2024\/_jcr_content\/root\/main\/section\/text\/links\/item0.stream\/1710386815551\/26357bbb7c06090d26fe803a7da5f23c637c8a56\/shell-energy-transition-strategy-2024.pdf\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">2024 Energy Transition Strategy report<\/a>. The company plans to \u201cdivest around 500 Shell-owned sites (including joint ventures) a year in 2024 and 2025.\u201d The company\u2019s plans were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-18\/shell-plans-to-divest-1-000-retail-sites-in-shift-to-ev-charging?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=eeq6exxF\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\">first reported by Bloomberg News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The closures will shrink the company\u2019s retail footprint by 2.1%. In 2023, the company operated 47,000 locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its energy transition strategy, energy giant Shell plans to shed some of its retail locations, including gasoline stations, to focus more on EV charging sites. \u201cWe are upgrading our retail network, with expanded electric vehicle charging and convenience offers, in response to changing customer needs,\u201d Shell said in its 2024 Energy Transition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}