Building the Charging Backbone for Howard Tenens’ Electric Fleet

Client: Howard Tenens

Industry: Logistics

Location: United Kingdom

Go-live: April 2026

About Howard Tenens

For more than 70 years, Howard Tenens has been moving goods across the UK — running its own warehouses and vehicle fleet from 25 locations, with everything from vans to 44-tonne double-deck artics on the road 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Their customer base spans automotive, retail, FMCG, food and drink, packaging, and renewable energy.

No two clients get the same setup. Whether it’s a single parcel run, dedicated loads, or a closed-loop international network, Howard Tenens builds around what the customer actually needs rather than offering a standard package. It’s that same mindset — value and reliability without cutting corners on service — that’s now steering their fleet toward zero emissions.

The Challenge

Buying electric trucks is the straightforward part. The real test is keeping an entire fleet charged, day after day, across sites that don’t operate the same way twice.

Howard Tenens had already committed to electric HGVs by the time they came to us — but the charging infrastructure to actually support that commitment wasn’t there yet. A domestic-style charger doesn’t cut it here: this is about serious power output, consistency across multiple depots, and one central point from which everything can be monitored. Off-the-shelf EV charging solutions simply weren’t built with that scale in mind.

The Solution

By April 2026, in partnership with installation specialist CCUK EV, we’d delivered exactly that.

Three ultra-fast DC chargers went in, adding up to 960kW of combined capacity, all tied into Monta’s charge point management system. The practical result: Howard Tenens can now monitor and control every charger at every depot from a single dashboard, rather than juggling separate tools site by site.

It’s one piece of a larger depot charging rollout tied to Howard Tenens’ broader fleet electrification plans — giving their electric HGVs the high-power charging infrastructure they need at scale, across every logistics site involved.

Behind the Delievery

The Monta integration is where this project really came down to execution. Syncing hardware and software isn’t always smooth, especially against a tight deadline — but our testing and integration work moved fast enough that the whole system went live on Monta right on schedule, with nothing sacrificed on the client’s end. CCUK EV Limited’s on-the-ground installation work deserves just as much credit for keeping that timeline intact.

The Outcome

The added value here isn’t the chargers themselves, it’s rather what they make possible. This project gives Howard Tenens the infrastructure foundation for the next phase of their zero-emission transition. And as more logistics operators head down the same road, this is the kind of setup that will determine which of them can actually deliver on electrification, rather than just announce it.

Thinking about a depot charging rollout of your own? Let’s talk.