Four hundred new electric vehicle charging points will be added to London’s streets by the end of 2016 following a deal between charger specialist Bluepoint London, Transport for London (TfL) and 16 city boroughs.
The deal will give the company responsibility for expanding the capital’s charging point network as well as maintaining and operating charge points in the agreed areas.
To help EV drivers find and reserve free charging points, Bluepoint London has developed an interactive map that runs via a smartphone app.
Chargers can be booked up to 40 minutes in advance to help prevent queues and maximise each charger’s use.
Source London – Bluepoint London's electric charging network operator - will offer a £4 monthly membership fee and pay-as-you go rates of 3.6p per minute for the new charge points. Older charge points will continue to be free to use.
Christophe Arnaud, Bluepoint London’s managing director said: “In just over two years we’ve made significant progress to improve the state of the network, remove barriers to facilitate charging and provide easier access to points with more on-street locations in London than ever before.”
Bluepoint London has already invested £30 million into Source London and says it will continue to work closely with London Boroughs and the Mayor’s office to add more charge points across London.
“We will maintain a transparent and fair fee structure for all EV users,” added Arnaud.
Demand for electric vehicles in Britain has soared in recent months, and London in particular has been an area of rapid growth.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has emphasised the importance of using low and zero-emission vehicles to clean up the city’s air. He announced a new T-charge for high polluting vehicles during the summer and wants to expand London’s Ultra-Low-Emission Zone.
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Mini2 wrote:
totally agree! after Ecotricity went down the drain the only other national network, Polar has chargers in odd places, none on my usual routes and very few rapid chargers. OF course EV's are ideal for London, small distances at crawling speeds are what they do best and due to chronic over-population, pollution is a crisis there.
Plug in car sales decline
Electric cars declining are they? Meanwhile back to stats
Evidence for your electric sales decline please. For example Zoe sales have increased every full year since 2013, BMW i3 increased every year since on sale, Telsa will almost certainly improve on 2015. Oh and then there's the Leaf sales (INCREASING NOT DECLINING) 5241(2015), 3965(2014), 1779(2013), 688(2012), 637(2011) you were saying what about Electric vehicles?
Campervan wrote:
Any decline is not so much due to the lower grants, that makes only relatively modest increases in the lease prices. The fact the government have decided to ramp up hybrid company car tax rates disproportionately over the next few years and Ecotricity the only rapid charge network has decided to charge twice as much for electricity as running a car on petrol would cost would be the reasons...
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