Electric cars are parked every day in hospital lots, school car parks, and shopping centers across the UK without charging, because installing the infrastructure to charge them has historically meant digging up the surface, pouring concrete, upgrading grid connections, and closing the car park for weeks. The Halo FastHub, built by UK company 3TI, is a direct answer to that problem. Everything Electric Tech visits a working hospital in Manchester where two units were installed and commissioned in roughly three days, with the car park closed for the minimum time the hospital could tolerate. Each unit ships fully pre-commissioned from the factory, arrives on a truck, sits on the surface of the car park without any foundation work, and connects to a single cable in the ground. Solar panels fold out from the structure. It is ready to charge immediately.
The two-unit installation at this hospital has a combined 40-kilowatt-peak solar array, which the 3TI representative says offsets around 7 tons of CO2 per year and generates the equivalent of 120,000 to 130,000 electric road miles annually from solar alone. Charging is available at 11 kW or 22 kW. That adds 40 to 80 miles of range during a typical hospital appointment, not a full charge, but enough to matter. Across 3TI's deployed fleet, solar supplements 30 to 40 percent of the electricity delivered for EV charging on average. The Halo software platform, which monitors the system remotely around the clock, manages grid draw dynamically by combining incoming grid power, live solar output, and real-time vehicle demand. Sites with limited grid connections, like schools, can maximize what gets delivered without triggering a costly grid upgrade.
The hospital owns the units outright as assets. 3TI charges a maintenance and monitoring fee. The hospital sets its own charging rates and keeps the revenue from electricity sold to drivers, which the 3TI representative describes as creating a positive payback on the unit cost over time. Monthly reports cover solar generation, bay utilization, and total electricity delivered. The hospital representative confirms that the car park closure of around a week was the key factor in choosing the Halo units over other options, given how heavily the site is used. One detail that changes the risk calculation for any organization considering permanent infrastructure: the units can be removed. Cap the cable, repaint the lines, and the Halo FastHub can be loaded back onto a truck and relocated or redeployed. Nothing is left behind except the painted bays.
Bottom line: If you manage a car park at a hospital, school, or large employer and have been putting off EV charging because the installation seems too disruptive, this is what the practical answer looks like right now. The revenue model is real, the solar component changes the operating cost math, and the reversibility removes a barrier that has stopped a lot of organizations from committing.