UK on-street public EV charging network targeting residents without private driveways; raised £65M from the UK National Wealth Fund and Aviva Investors in 2025.
Green Score
- Greenwashing risk
- medium
- Data confidence
- low
- Method
- how it is calculated
Climate Impact & Solution35%72
Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.
On-street residential EV charging directly enables decarbonisation of transport for the ~55% of urban households without driveway access, addressing a documented structural barrier to EV adoption; the product's climate value is real and material, though no independently verified avoided-emissions figures have been published by the company.
Decarbonization & Targets20%18
Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.
No SBTi commitment, no validated science-based targets, no CDP disclosure, and no published net-zero plan with measurable milestones were found in any public source; sustainability language in press releases is aspirational and unquantified.
ESG & Operations15%42
Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.
UK-manufactured hardware is a genuine positive for supply-chain localisation and green jobs; the company publicly champions accessibility for Blue Badge (disabled) drivers; however, no published ESG or sustainability report, no GHG inventory, no disclosed labour or supply-chain standards, and no independent social audit were found.
Transparency & Verification15%22
Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.
No sustainability report, CDP filing, TCFD disclosure, or independently verified carbon accounting was identified; public claims of climate benefit are qualitative and unaudited, and Companies House filings are the only structured public disclosure available.
Integrity15%62
Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.
Two material governance concerns were identified: (1) questions over conflicts of interest in the NWF investment process given Aviva's CEO sat on the NWF advisory taskforce while Aviva was a pre-existing major investor; (2) founders executed a secondary equity sale on Seedrs shortly after a taxpayer-backed funding round closed, which the government declined to comment on — neither issue has been definitively resolved, but no environmental violations, litigation, or fossil-fuel lobbying were found.
Why it's on ClimateTicker
Connected Kerb builds and operates on-street public EV charge points primarily for urban residents who lack private driveways, directly enabling the shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric mobility and reducing transport emissions at scale. The core infrastructure thesis is genuinely climate-positive — filling a critical gap that holds back mass EV adoption. However, as a growth-stage private company with no published SBTi targets, no CDP disclosure, and no independently verified carbon accounting of its own operations or facilitated emissions, the sustainability narrative rests almost entirely on the inherent value of the product rather than on any rigorous self-reported ESG framework.
Controversy & Greenwashing Watch
Connected Kerb founders sold equity via Seedrs within months of securing £55m in public money from the NWF, raising investor and media questions about whether public capital enabled a private exit; the government declined to comment.fastcharge.email
Aviva's CEO sat on the government's National Wealth Fund advisory taskforce at the same time that Aviva was an existing £110m investor in Connected Kerb, prompting industry allegations of favouritism over the £55m NWF equity stake, which the NWF denied.fastcharge.email
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