North Lanarkshire to introduce tariffs for public EV chargers

Tariffs will be introduced on public electric vehicle charging points across North Lanarkshire from 1 January 2023.

The council operates 122 charging points as part of the Scottish Government’s Charge Place Scotland network. Their installation was funded by Transport Scotland and, to date, there has been no charge to drivers for the energy used, to encourage uptake of electric vehicles.

The council only met the costs for the initial roll-out of the programme to encourage take-up. As all...