Cambridge Invests in Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
Cambridge City Council has announced that 177 new electric vehicle (EV) charging points are to be installed in car parks across the city by the end of 2022.
The news will be music to the ears of the city’s EV drivers; the chargers will allow them to replenish their car’s battery while they’re shopping, working or going to an appointment, eliminating the ‘range anxiety’ traditionally associated with battery-powered cars.
The first 50 chargers are set to be fitted to Castle Hill, Adam and Eve and Gwydir Street pay and display car parks in the coming weeks.
EV drivers will be pleased to hear that this is only the beginning of what the council has planned. Over the next few years, it says the total number of charging points will pass the 600 mark, spread across 14 sites within the city.
The council is working with one of the UK’s largest providers of EV infrastructure, Connected Kerb, who will help the council meet their target of 600 charging points over the coming years.
Cllr Rosy Moore, Executive Councillor for Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity, said: “It’s really positive that these new chargers are being installed in council car parks across the city.
“They will be available for car park users in the day and for local residents to use at night. We are also working with Cambridgeshire County Council, the highways authority, to get more on-street chargers installed across the city in residential areas in the coming years.
“This is another project which will get us closer to our objective of being a net zero city by 2030. Petrol and diesel vehicles are of course a major contributor to the city’s overall carbon output, so enabling more people to easily recharge their electric vehicles will be a significant step along the way to achieving that goal.”
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