Driving on Sunshine at the Home of British Motorsport: Silverstone’s Race to Net Zero
Silverstone Circuit is not just the home of British Motorsport, it is also setting the pace on sustainability. As one of the world’s most iconic racing venues gears up for a packed summer calendar, it has taken a decisive step in its Shift to Zero sustainability initiative: installing solar-supported EV charging infrastructure across the site.
The challenge: reliability at pace
A venue like Silverstone does not get downtime. Visitors and staff arrive throughout the racing season, and every part of the site, from the Pit Stop Café to Silverstone Wing, needs to keep moving. Sustainability commitments only mean something if the infrastructure behind them actually works under pressure. Silverstone needed EV charging that would perform reliably at scale, without compromising on its environmental ambitions.
The solution: two hubs, built for solar
3ti installed two HALO FastHubs, one at the Pit Stop Café and one at Silverstone Wing, giving visitors and staff low-carbon charging exactly where they need it. Each HALO FastHub combines solar PV, smart energy management, and EV charging in a single integrated unit, so a meaningful share of the electricity going into every car is generated on-site rather than drawn straight from the grid.
That is the principle behind everything 3ti builds: solar, storage, and EV charging are worth more together than any one of them alone. Energy that would otherwise be exported and lost is instead captured and put to work charging vehicles, on-site, in real time.
The outcome: ready for the race to Net Zero
Silverstone now has reliable, solar-supported EV charging in place for the racing season and beyond, tangible proof that decarbonising a working site does not mean compromising on performance. It is infrastructure doing double duty: keeping visitors and staff moving, while cutting the carbon cost of every charge.
As Stephane Bazire, Head of Business Sustainability at Silverstone, put it:
“As the home of British Motor Sports, we want to be ahead of the curve and be seen as a front leader in the race to net zero.”
Why this matters beyond Silverstone
Motorsport has a complicated relationship with sustainability, and Silverstone’s willingness to lead publicly on it says something. Every organisation with a car park has the same underlying opportunity: unused roof and ground space that could be generating clean power, and a growing base of EV drivers who need somewhere reliable to charge. Silverstone shows what that opportunity looks like in practice, delivered fast enough to be ready for a live racing season, and built to keep performing under real demand.
This is what Driving on Sunshine® looks like at scale: not a slogan, but chargers that are actually solar-fed, on a site that cannot afford downtime, backing up a public commitment with infrastructure that delivers.
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