Birmingham invests in charging infrastructure with Ubitricity
In partnership with Ubitricity, the Birmingham City Council is carrying out a pilot deployment of 560 lamppost EV charge points across residential areas of the city where access to private off-street parking is limited or unavailable.
According to Ubitricity, the 560 charge points will be installed in lampposts on 82 streets across the city. Due to their simple installation process, disruptions are expected to remain minimal and take less than an hour to install per unit. The installation process has already started: “Deployed using Office of Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) funding, the first 300 of these charge points have already been installed, and the remaining 260 will be installed before the end of Spring 2025.”
“While our focus as a council is on delivering the Birmingham Transport Plan and encouraging people to swap private vehicles for public transport, we also want to ensure that, for those who require use of a car, we have the infrastructure in place to facilitate use of low or zero-emission vehicles,” explained Councillor Majid Mahmood, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport at Birmingham City Council.
Stuart Wilson, UK Managing Director of ubitricity added: “ubitricity is delighted to be supporting Birmingham City Council as they begin this journey to create one of the largest public EV charging networks outside London, encouraging the transition to electric vehicles, and helping to create a cleaner and healthier, environment for the people of Birmingham.”
Ubitricity writes that it has installed 301 charging points between 15th October and 24th December. “As one of the quickest mass rollouts ubitricity has headed, they put the accelerated installation down to close collaboration with the council, with the city’s wide-ranging commitment to EV infrastructure paving the way for other cities to follow suit.”
Just a few days ago, another charging project was announced in Birmingham to build DC fast charging infrastructure. In 2023, Birmingham also saw the largest charging park in the UK open with enough space for up to 180 EVs to charge simultaneously.
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