Automotive

Coffee for the electric era of automotive, roasted on the grid your vehicles charge from.

Roasted on electricity in York. Served wherever the industry is going electric: charging hubs, dealerships, depots and experience centres. A free eight-week pilot at your site.

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38% zero-carbon generation right now. We time roasts into these windows.

100% electric roasting

Low-carbon, smokeless, ventless roasters, Raylor Centre, York. No gas.

Eight weeks, free

One site, our people and kit, no rent.

Traceable to the farm

And a low-carbon line for your own reporting.

The electric era

The industry is going electric. The coffee has not caught up.

Forecourts are becoming charging hubs with lounges. Showrooms are becoming EV experience spaces. Fleets are moving to depot charging, and drivers now wait half an hour where they used to wait five minutes. In most of those places the coffee is still a capsule machine or a vending box, and the sustainability story on the wall is undercut by the cup in the driver's hand. Ours is a roastery that has never burned gas.

The offer

Give us one site for eight weeks, free. No rent, no risk to you. We bring the coffee, the kit and the people. Together we measure what a proper coffee offer does to dwell time, spend and driver welfare, and you keep the data.

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A yellow La Marzocco espresso machine and a bag of kWh coffee on a table beside an electric Renault 5 on the North York Moors
The espresso ran off the car's V2L socket. The roasting happens on mains electricity in York. We are exact about which is which.
A yellow electric Renault 5 parked on the North York Moors at sunrise, with a kWh espresso setup running from the car on a table beside it
Fig.04 · Espresso off the battery · North York Moors, sunrise

Where it fits

One offer, four kinds of site. Dealerships and depots run the same pilot on a smaller footprint.

Charging hubs

The 25 to 40 minute charge is a coffee occasion. Lounges are being built; the coffee inside them is usually a capsule machine.

Dealerships and showrooms

EV handovers, launch events and the showroom bar. Your own roast, your own bag, and a machine we specify and train your team on.

Fleet and depot

Drivers charging on shift, staff welfare that is more than a kettle, and a supplier that fits around the rota.

Experience centres and launches

Test-drive days, brand spaces and product launches, with an espresso bar that matches the car rather than undercuts it.

No staff overhead

We bring the people as well as the coffee. Your site team carries on doing their job.

A sustainability story that holds

Roasted on the same grid your vehicles charge from, with supplier-specific per-kilo Scope 3 figures you can publish.

A supplier who turns up

Roasted to order in York. Our own electric van covers York and North Yorkshire; everywhere else in the UK goes by tracked courier.

Read: What drivers actually want from coffee at a charging hub

Freshly roasted coffee beans in the tray of the electric Bellwether roaster at kWh Coffee in York

The Raylor Centre · York

Roasted on low-carbon, smokeless, ventless roasters at the Raylor Centre, York. No gas.

Batches are timed into the grid’s low-carbon half-hours, the same half-hours your vehicles charge on. Watch it live on Grid Watch.

Decentralised roasting: small batches, roasted close to where they are drunk, fewer lorries.

Traceable to the farm, and a low-carbon line for your own reporting. Full workings in the Scope 3 report.

Grid WatchScope 3 report

How a pilot works

Eight weeks, one site, and a decision at the end of it that both of us can back with numbers.

  1. 01

    A site visit

    Power, water, footfall, and where the cart or kiosk sits. Half a day, and we tell you honestly whether the site suits a pilot.

  2. 02

    Eight weeks, our people and kit

    We bring the machine, the grinder, the coffee and the baristas. You provide the space and a socket.

  3. 03

    We measure together

    Cups, dwell, spend and driver feedback, logged from day one and shared with you as we go. You keep the data.

  4. 04

    Week nine

    If it worked, we agree terms for a permanent offer. If it did not, you have the numbers and we shake hands.

Where we are

Our first transport-hub site is with First Bus at Askham Bar park & ride in York, around 750,000 passengers a year. We are starting automotive pilots with hubs, dealerships and depots on the A1(M) and M62 corridors.

What we will not claim

We do not yet have a reliable figure for what coffee does to dwell time or spend at an automotive site, and we have not found one we would trust. The pilot exists to get it.

Talk to us about a pilot

Tell us about your sites. Caitlin, co-founder, replies within 24 hours.

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