Commercial Partners

Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank is proud to be a commercial partner of ITT Hub. Both the transport and infrastructure sectors face many challenges, whether from supply chain issues, evolving technologies or mitigating the impact of climate change. However these challenges also present opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Climate change is one of the most urgent issues facing society today. At Lloyds Bank, we have an important role to play in supporting the transition to a low carbon economy. We’re committed to playing our part and have an ambition to reduce the carbon emissions we finance by more than 50% by 2030, on the path to Net Zero by 2050 or sooner. Wherever you are on your transition journey, we want to be there to support you. From discounted lending for green purposes to improving the energy efficiency of buildings and vehicles; we offer a range of tools and products & services to help your business achieve its sustainability ambitions. It’s vital that you’re supported by a bank that understands your business, your strategy and supports your ambitions. We provide comprehensive financial services to small businesses through to global multinational corporations.

All lending is subject to status

Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under Registration Number 119278.

Lex Autolease

Lex Autolease is the UK’s largest vehicle leasing provider (FN50 Data - fleetnews.co.uk) and has over 85,000 light commercial vehicles in the fleet. Our Commercial Vehicle (CV) Specialist Engineers can work closely with you to understand your specific business and operational challenges. This includes managing complex builds, designs and specifications tailored to your business needs. Our range of leasing, funding and service options come together to form a fully bespoke and insight driven solution. As green fleet experts, we’ll help you to see how electric vans can fit into your transport operation. We can assist in shaping your fleet’s environmental agenda, balancing your operational requirements with the need to reduce emissions. This includes implementing electric vehicles where suitable, designing the infrastructure to support it as well as reviewing your fleet to identify opportunities to downsize vehicles and maximise utilisation. We remain at the forefront of fleet trends and developments by sharing findings and strategies with trade organisations, vehicle manufacturers and industry specialists, allowing you to respond to both today’s commercial and regulatory environment and preparing your fleet for the future.

National Grid

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time and the clock is ticking so we need to act now in all sectors. Transport accounts for just under a quarter of global CO2 emissions and still has an enormous impact too on air quality and hence health. Moving to electric, hydrogen and other forms of clean propulsion will make a huge difference. We can make that difference together. National Grid is poised, with our expertise in electricity and gas and with our infrastructure, to facilitate and help drive the successful transition to cleaner transport. We are committed to decarbonisation of our own business and to leading the transition for our communities and the economy as a whole. Let’s work together to have a clean energy network and net zero transport – it will take the power of all of us to really make a difference.

Western Power Distribution

Serving the Midlands, South West and Wales, Western Power Distribution is actively engaged in preparing the network for the future, creating Distribution Future Energy Scenarios, the range of credible futures for the growth of the distribution network. As part of this, in 2020 it completed Net Zero South Wales, a collaborative project with Wales and West Utilities and Regen with funding from the Network Innovation Allowance programme. This project developed an integrated Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES) study which covered both the electricity and gas distribution networks in South Wales. It also produces a Long Term Development Statement to assist current and future users of Western Power Distribution’s network to identify and assess opportunities available to them for making new or additional use of the distribution system. This includes an interactive online map showing where there is current grid growth capacity, within the existing network.

Strategic Partner

Logistics UK

In a constantly changing world, with so many disruptive forces driving change in the way goods move across borders and through the supply chain, logistics has never been more important to UK PLC. At Logistics UK, we are proud to be the only business group which represents the whole industry, as well as those who buy freight services, and this puts us at the heart of the debate over our industry’s future.

Zenobē Energy

Zenobē Energy is partnering with us to provide charging facilities for the electric vehicles in the Demonstration Hub.

Zenobē is an international EV fleet and battery storage specialist, headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe and Australasia. The company provides fleet electrification and battery storage services to fleet operators, power grid operators and large businesses.

Zenobē’s Electric Transportation-as-a-Service (ETaaS) provides fleet operators and local authorities with a full solution for pay-per-month fee including battery replacement and award-winning software. By minimising upfront costs, Zenobē is removing the traditional barriers to electrification and boosting the adoption of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.

With c.800 electric vehicles contracted globally and c.25% market share of the UK bus sector, Zenobē is helping the sector drive towards a net-zero future. Zenobē is also a pioneer in the second-life use of commercial vehicle batteries.

Steven Meersman, Co-Founder and Director at Zenobē, says: “We are proud to be partnering with ITT Hub, an organisation that shares our passion for using electrification to enable a cleaner, greener future. Reuse is absolutely central to this.

“At Zenobē we are dedicated to advancing battery applications with a particular focus on what happens to EV batteries at the end of their lives on vehicles. Our growing second-life battery operations solve this issue, as we reuse batteries from our electric fleets across Europe and close the loop. “As the world continues to drive towards its net-zero goal, Zenobē is committed to leading the charge towards a circular economy, embracing secondlife battery technology and championing its vast capabilities.”

Steven Meersman, Co-Founder and Director,