Draft:Ohme

Ohme is a provider of home chargers for electric vehicles, using a smart technology designed to encourage drivers to take advantage of flexible home electricity tariffs. It was named Fast Track Company of the Year at the UK Green Business Awards 2023.

The company was established in 2017 as a subsidiary of Temporis Capital, a renewable energy investment fund co-founded by David Watson and Derry Guy in 2010. It has offices in Cork and London and employs around 120 people. Watson, who was born in Cork and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, is the CEO.

In September 2022, Watson claimed the company had up to 25 percent of the home-charger market in the UK and Ireland and that he expected this to rise to 50 percent by 2023. It is the official EV charging supplier to Motability, the car-fleet operator which provides 600,000 vehicles to disabled drivers in the UK. It is also the official charging partner of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Audi, Škoda Auto and Cupra, a brand of SEAT.

Ohme − pronounced ″oh-me″ – is both an anagram of ′home′ and a play on the word ohm, the unit of electrical resistance.

It was cited by the Financial Times-backed Sifted as a start-up with the potential to be a ″gigacorn″ – a company with the ability to get rid of one gigatonne from the atmosphere every year. It was highly commended at the Marie Claire Sustainability Awards 2023, where it was named as the UK’s fastest-growing EV-charging company.