Through this partnership, Ubitricity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell and which has a network of over 6,500 public charge points, will install and manage the public charging infrastructure. It will be made up of a combination of bollard and street lamppost chargers. The charge points will charge at a speed of up to 5kW and each take just under two hours to install. The council has asked residents to suggest charge point installation locations.
The roll-out is planned for residential communities where the majority of residents park on the street, allowing residents to easily charge hybrid and electric vehicles on the street where they live. A lack of accessible public EV charging points is a common barrier to EV adoption. A study commissioned by the UK Department for Transport published in March 2022 showed that the public wants to charge their vehicles at or near home, which can be difficult for the eight million households in the UK that don’t have access to off-street or private parking.
“These new chargers will be installed where off-street parking is not available and will use the power supply from streetlights – now we need to know where residents would like to see them installed,” said Rob Waltham, leader of North Lincolnshire Council.
