Signs and EV bays to boost use of lamp column chargers

Electric Vehicles

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea plans to install 190 signs to highlight the chargers and to encourage drivers to park elsewhere if they don’t need to charge

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea plans to install 190 signs to highlight the chargers and to encourage drivers to park elsewhere if they don’t need to charge

London boroughs are to encourage the use of lamp post electric vehicle chargepoints by installing signage and dedicated EV charging bays. The actions come as data from London Councils indicate many of the chargepoints see little use. 

Installing charging points into street lighting columns has been seen as a cheap and unobtrusive way of delivering EV?charging facilities for residents with on-street parking. 

More than 3,000 such chargers will have been implemented in the capital by...

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