Lysara expands fleet-charging infrastructure across Europe
Lysara, the first pan-European platform focused on developing and operating fleet-charging and parking infrastructure to decarbonise commercial transport, is expanding its operations across Western Europe to create a £1 billion vertically integrated group to decarbonise commercial transport.
As part of its growth plans the group, which is backed by GreenPoint Partners, has appointed Scott Parsons, a former Chief operating officer at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, as its new CEO.
“Fleet electrification is speeding up, and infrastructure needs to keep pace”, said Parsons. “What makes Lysara different is its ability to combine the physical with the operational, creating solutions that are not only technically sound but commercially viable. We plan to grow our footprint, strengthen customer partnerships, and help shape the future of transport infrastructure across Europe.”
Lysara was created when GreenPoint, an investment firm founded by Chris Green, former global head of real estate at Macquarie, consolidated ownership of the legacy Infinium Logistics business and contributed an existing 44-asset real estate portfolio to seed the integrated platform.
Lysara combines real estate ownership, development, operations, technology and energy systems engineering into a unified platform. Its goal is to offer a one-stop solution for companies transitioning to electric commercial fleets, such as taxis, rideshares, rental cars, last-mile delivery vehicles, and heavy goods vehicles.
Backed by an initial £340 million commitment from GreenPoint, Lysara is developing a mix of operational car parks with retrofitted EV charging and new ground-up sites near key logistics hubs such as Heathrow and London Gateway, with the ambition to provide continent-wide solutions to major e-commerce firms, 3PLs, and other large commercial fleet operators.
As global companies and lawmakers push to decarbonise, the provision of fleet-charging infrastructure will require tens of billions of pounds in capital investment over the next decade. To date, Lysara has secured approximately 50 MVA of grid power, enough to supply 24,000 homes at peak load, and continues to build a strong pipeline across Europe.
Lysara’s goal is to represent a new asset class that blurs the traditional boundaries between infrastructure and real estate, combining land, power, technology and operations to create long-term, stable value that is more resilient to economic and political volatility than asset classes more reliant on discretionary spending.
“Lysara is now uniquely positioned to support the electrification of Europe’s logistics and fleet sector through an integrated, future-ready infrastructure platform”, said Chris Green, Founder, GreenPoint. “There are millions of fleet vehicles on Europe’s roads, and we anticipate the majority will transition to electric over the coming decade which requires dedicated charging infrastructure, which presents a massive growth opportunity.”
